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This website is developed by teachers for teachers and contains great ideas that have already been classroom tested.  The printables are either free or very reasonably priced.  Activities can be found for all levels and help in all areas of phonemic awareness.

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The activities contained within the Make, Take & Teach Phonemic Awareness Activity Pack are ideal for small group intervention. This activity pack contains 16 of our most popular phonemic awareness activities! Hands on activities using colorful and engaging pictures make this a favorite for both teachers and students. Your kit includes a 19 page teaching manual with step-by-step directions for each activity making the activities ideal for both teacher and para-professional led groups. Easy to follow directions for assembling your activities are provided. Your kit includes the following activities:

Isolating Sounds: Beginning Sound Sorting, Bingo Chip Beginning Sounds, Sound Matching, Odd One Out, Doggie, Where's My Bone?, Where's My Sound Train

Blending: Race Car Blending

Segmenting: Breaking Up Words, How Many Sounds?, Squaring Up

Phoneme Manipulation: What's the Scoop?, Doggie Sound Switch

Students learn best with a hands-on approach to teaching. These are hands on activities so you will need to gather some materials to assemble several of the games. A complete listing of materials is contained within this document.

The following activity packs are also available:
Alphabetic Principle Activity Pack
Short Vowels/Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Activity Pack
Consonant Blends and Digraphs Activity Pack
Magic e Activity Pack

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Phonemic Awareness - Response to Intervention Activity Pack

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The activities contained within the Make, Take & Teach Phonemic Awareness Activity Pack are ideal for small group intervention. This activity pack contains 16 of our most popular phonemic awareness activities! Hands on activities using colorful and engaging pictures make this a favorite for bot...

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Convenient list of words to use in activities for beginners and more advanced readers.

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This website contains over 20 different activities for students to practice phonemic awareness.  Many are interactive and will keep students engaged while they are learning.  Most of the activities can be used for all levels just by changing the words for more advanced readers.

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Phonological awareness & Phonemic awareness activities

It has taken a while but we have finally completed our Phonological Awareness Activities Packet. This packet has been a huge undertaking but we wanted to accomplish a few things with it:

1. Align the phonemic awareness activities on this page below with the Common Core Standards.

2. Create new phonemic awareness activities for the standards we did not have existing activities for.

3. Put all the activities in one download!

What we ended up with is a 58 page Phonological Awareness Activities Download.
The file was so large that we could not upload it to our Download Central Page so we placed it in Katie's TpT Store. Here are some sample pics for you. Click any pic to enlarge.

This is our favorite part about the new download! You'll get a 30-page phonological awareness progression for ways to help your students at the word, syllable, and sound level. Simply cut the page down the middle, punch a whole in the corner, and bind with a metal ring! It's perfect to do with your students when you have a few free minutes...and it's super handy. Click to enlarge the pics.

Head on over to Katie's TpT Store to purchase this packet for just $3 or keep scrolling down for all of our FREE phonemic awareness activities.

Want an easy and effective way to track multiple students' phonological awareness skills? Print off this template! List the names of students in the left hand column and place check marks under the skills when a child has mastered them!

Syllable: Phonemic Awareness Activities

Using different items such as hand clappers, drums, or tennis rackets you can have children determine the number of syllables in a given word. For example, you would tap a drum two times for the word "sister" because it has two syllables. For increased difficulty, tap the drum (any number of times) and have your child think of a word that contains that same number of syllables.

Using the lyrics to "Hickety Pickety," have your child say, clap the syllables, and whisper their name to you.

Write the names of students in your classroom or members of your family. Have you child color a smiley face for each syllable in a given name and make a tally mark for each syllable.

Copy a "Classroom Syllable Graph" for each student in your classroom. Say the name of a student and have them color a square above the correct number of syllables. A fun way to combine phonemic awareness activities and math practice!

Help your child find items in different rooms in your home. Sort them by syllables. Write words (or draw pictures) for each object.

Beginning & Ending Sounds: Phonemic Awareness Activities

Tell your child you are going to teach them a song that will help them discover new words by taking off parts (sounds) of the word. Teach this song and let them fill in the last word. After a few verses using new words, invite the children to sing along. Other possible words to use include:

Beginning Sounds: boat (oat), farm (arm), meat (eat), bus (us), sled (lead), hand (and), & sit (it).

Ending Sounds: hammer (ham), soap (so), little (lit), meat (me), & boat (bow).

Segmenting & blending: phonemic awareness activities

Use these sound boxes to help children segment sounds in words. Simply print, laminate, and cut in half each card. Place one game chip under each box. Students say the name of each picture and then push up a chip for each sound in that word. Great for small group instruction!

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Give students a word with 1-4 phonemes (sounds). Have them stand up and touch their head, shoulders, knees, and toes as they are saying the sounds in words. For example, the word "cat" would be /c/ (head), /a/ (shoulders), and /t/ (knees). A great active, phonemic awareness activity for helping students with segmenting!

Tell your child that you are going to teach them a song that will help them hear all of the sounds in a word. Teach this song and let them blend the sounds together to make a word. Sing the song a couple times, substituting a new word each time. Scroll down on this page to open a list of words with 4-6 phonemes (sounds) for ideas!

Place the cards face-up in random order on a flat surface. Have your child put the pictures together. Say a sound for each picture part while slowly sliding the parts away from each other. Then have your child say a sound for each picture part while slowly sliding the parts together. Once they are back together, say the whole word and continue with other picture cards

Using the above template, write words with 1-5 sounds in the left-hand column. Have students count how many sounds they hear in each word and write that number in the middle column. Give your child 5 bean bags and place a basket in front of them (distance depends on their ability to throw). Children throw a bean bag for each sound they hear in a given word. A point is received for each bean bag that makes it into the basket. (Make sure your child is saying the sounds they hear as they throw the bean bag). When they are finished throwing, have them count up their points to determine the grand total.

Place a green, yellow, and red mat on the floor (in that order). Begin by giving your child a word with 1-3 sounds. Have your child say the sounds they hear as they jump from mat to mat. For increased difficulty, move the mats so they are further apart.

This template can be used similar to those of Elkonin boxes for segmenting words into sounds. Give your child a word with 1-5 sounds and have them move a token into a box for each phoneme. It's a good idea to use different colored tokens and make sure your child is moving from left to right, just as if they were reading a word.

Have your child look at each picture and determine the number of sounds in that word. Color a box for each sound.

Here you will find a list of short and long vowel words with 4-6 phonemes (sounds). Before you use this list with your child/class, make sure they have mastered segmenting 1-3 phoneme words. These words can be used with the following phonemic awareness activities for segmenting:

This segmenting activity is easy to do and it doesn't require any materials but your hands! Have your child/class place their hands together. Give them a word. Each time they hear a sound in a word, have them say it and move their hands further apart.

This is the same concept as the segmenting activity above, only using silly putty to stretch the sounds in words. Using the silly putty helps children to visualize words that have a few sounds and words that have many sounds. (Children really get excited when they find words with many sounds, causing the silly putty to break apart).

This way of stretching words is great for students who like movement! Use a yoga mat and begin by explaining that it's important to stretch your body before you can stretch your brain. Give your child a set of directions to stretch their body. For example, tell them to slowly touch their toes, reach high in the air, place arms out to the side, and roll their head slowly. Once they have stretched their bodies, they are ready to stretch words! A fantastic multi-sensory phonemic awareness activity.

Using inexpensive night lights is a great way to help children learn to say sounds in words. Line up the night lights and say a word. Have your child say the sounds in the word as they turn the lights on. Repeat this process with the same word, but have your child say the sounds while they turn off the night lights. (It's always a good idea to teach your child to work from left to right! This typically is best to do in the small group setting when working on 1-4 phoneme words).

Using magnetic bingo chips and a cut-apart egg carton, place a chip in each slot. Give your child a word with 1-6 phonemes and have them pick up a chip while they say each sound. Like in the previous activity, it's best to teach your child to work from left to right.

Rhyming: Phonemic Awareness activities

Rhyme Time Bingo

Check out our new rhyming bingo game to play with children in the small group setting or at literacy centers. Directions are attached!

Want a fun way to help children learn to rhyme? Try this game with 2-4 children...Great for small group instruction and centers! Directions are attached.

By cutting and laminating the following cards, you can provide a fun and easy way to help children increase their rhyming skills.

Each week and new chant or poem is introduced. Students practice reading these poems through various activities and send them home each Thursday to share with family members.

Mystery Bag

Using an old book bag filled with random objects is a great way to help children with rhyming. Find things that are of meaning to you or place objects in the book bag that will make them laugh. See how many words you can think of that rhyme with that object, even if it is not a real word!

Track your class student rhyming progress using the "Rhyming Groups Folder". Glue the following four tabs on the inside of a manila folder, laminate, and use Post-Its to move individual students' rhyming progression.

Can't Hear/Can't Produce Rhymes

Can Hear/Can't Produce Rhymes

Can Hear/Can Produce Some Rhymes

Can Hear/Can Produce Rhymes Consistently

Learning the Difference between letters, sounds, syllables, & sentences: phonemic awareness activities

By enlarging and laminating this template your students can determine the letters, sounds, and syllables in new words you are working on in the classroom. (Kinkos is a great place to have documents enlarged). This helps children visualize that some words might have a lot of letters, but not a lot of sounds and vice versa.

Letter, Sound, Syllable, Word, & Sentence Poster Template

Cut out the cards and glue each to the top of a large poster. Provide your students/child with old magazines and newspapers. Help them cut out uppercase and lowercase letters, sounds, syllables, words, and sentences and glue of the appropriate poster. For "sounds" and "syllables" have your child use pictures of objects. Cut the objects according to the number of sounds and syllables. For example, the word "cat" would be cut into three pieces to represent the sound /k/ /a/ /t/. A great multi-sensory phonemic awareness activity.
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Free downloads for phonemic awareness activities

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A fun game for students in small groups.  There are two levels to this game so it will help with beginning students and reinforce more advanced readers.  This would be best for 1st grade students or new readers.  Students are working on all of the aspects of phonemic awareness.

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FREE Phonemic Awareness Warm Up Activity for small group reading

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Play this spinner game to review and reinforce phonemic awareness concepts. Great for a small group warm up activity with guided reading. Simply have a stack of picture cards, spin the spinner, and complete the task. Check out my phonemic awareness games HERE

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Kids can make words with beginning sounds, ending sounds, middle sounds and blends.  Any number of cups can be set up making it as difficult or easy as the class needs it to be.  Single letters can be used for beginning readers and more complex blends can be used with higher grades.  This will help students identify the sounds and location of sounds in words.

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Toss and Blend: A Carnival Game | Activity | Education.com

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This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

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Using sheets like the one below, teachers can use any number of prompts.  I spy with my little eye something rhyming with....starts with....ends with....has 2 sounds...etc.  This activity can be adjusted to make it as easy or difficult as needed, making it ideal for multiple grade levels.

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Guidelines for Phonological and Phonetic Awareness

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Guidelines for Phonological and Phonetic Awareness

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These simple poems help students with rhymes, pointing and reading aloud.  They would also be good for take home practice.  Students can memory read the poems with parents and finger point to the words for practice.  Students that can decode and have some phonemic awareness can practice sounding out the words and identifying the rhyming words.  Best for 1st grade.

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Learning to read is such an exciting thing! After unlocking letters and sounds, a huge part of learning to read is blending and reading CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words comfortably. These 23 CVC Word Family phonics poems are perfect for beginning readers to build their confidence and excitement for reading and rhyming!

Printable Phonics Poems for 23 Word Families!

These phonics poems are just the right length for little readers, especially those who love to rhyme but perhaps don't have a lot of stamina yet when it comes to reading.

Their short and simple rhymes tell a fun story, and there is even a fun matching picture to color!

Each poem focuses on a specific word family indicated in the bottom corner. This makes it great for extending word study, as you can have kids go through and highlight the word families, write the words, talk about them, and more!

The poems also incorporate sight words. This works so well for me with my students because I know they are getting both sight word AND word family practice!

I love that no matter what small group I am working with, or what word family I am focusing on - there is likely a poem for it!
The following word families are included:
Using and Storing the Poems

How you use the poems is entirely up to you! You can have students read the poem and then send it home, or you can save them for repeated use.

One option that is super cost friendly is to just store them in a folder with prongs or file folder in your students' book boxes (or wherever they store their materials). Then they can pull out some poems to read anytime! When it is full, you can send it home.

Another option is to hole punch the poems and put them in a small binder. This is the option I prefer in my classroom. This costs a little more, but often parents will donate the binders or perhaps you have them on your school supply list.

This way, the poems never fall out or get lost! They can turn through their binder and read it like a book. Then, it makes a really nice fluency binder to send home with them as well!

Get Your Copy of the Phonics Poems

Ready to print some poems that your kids can read with confidence? Grab your copy of the CVC Word Family Poems HERE.

Or grab the Phonics Poem Bundle and get all of these, plus alphabet and CVCe poems too!

More CVC Resources

CVC words are super important in learning to read, so we always try to make them fun with a variety of books and activities! These resources are some of our favorites, and make early reading fun!
CVC Word Families MEGA Bundle Free CVC Rhyming Words Board Game Free CVC Word Family Spinner Games
Fluency Passages for Early Readers (Our Most Popular Resource!)

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CVC Phonics Poems - The Kindergarten Connection

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Learning to read is such an exciting thing! After unlocking letters and sounds, a huge part of learning to read is blending and reading CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words comfortably. These 23 CVC Word Family phonics poems are perfect for beginning readers to build their confidence and excitement for reading and rhyming!

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Seatwork or homework practice.  These worksheets can be used for assessments for all levels of readers.  Best for 1st grade or younger.

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There are numerous ideas for counting sounds using tape bubbles, counters, pipe cleaners and beads, and push lights.  Students use these materials to stretch out the sounds and count them.  Helps students understand that the number of sounds doesn’t always match the number of letters.  These are activities that are best for early readers, ELL students, and new readers to help reinforce phonemic awareness.

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Beginning phonemic awareness activities can be daunting. Seeing that phonemic awareness can be "done in the dark" (meaning that it doesn't involve using letters), it can seem as though it is an abstract concept to teach. However, building beginning phonemic awareness is vital in teaching children to read. A huge part of phonemic awareness is having the ability to segment and blend phonemes (sounds) in words. Practicing these beginning skills can be boring, but it doesn't have to be. It can be hands-on and fun!

Teaching reading intervention forces me to think outside the box. I need students to practice segmenting and blending every day without getting bored or disengaged. I've searched through my moving classroom (AKA a rolling cart) and found some ways that teachers and students can use everyday items to build phonemic awareness! Just in case you don't have the items in your classroom, I've linked them to Amazon [affiliate] throughout the post.

#1 - Bingo Chips

There are SO many uses for Bingo chips in the classroom. We love using them to blend and segment sounds. They can easily slide on any surface.

Start with two bingo chips and words with two sounds. Have students slide the chips up as they say each sound and run their finger across them as they blend them together. Since they usually come in bulk, you'll definitely have enough for all of your students.

To make it harder, give students five chips and then say a word with 2-5 sounds. Have them decide how many sounds (chips) are in the word before segmenting and blending the word. FUN TIP: Give the students magnetic wands to pick up the chips when they are done!

#2 - Unifix Cubes

Who said that Unifix cubes are just for math?

When you use Unifix cubes to practice blending and segmenting sounds, students can physically connect and disconnect the cubes as they blend and segment words.

#3 - Tape Bubbles

What teacher doesn't have excessive amounts of tape lying around? I attach small pieces of tape to itself (sticky side out) to create "bubbles."

Students can "stick" each sound to the tape bubble as they segment. It's a fun way for them to play with school supplies they aren't normally allowed to play with.

#4 - Playdough

This is an oldie, but a goodie! Give each student some playdough and have them separate it into two, three, or four balls depending on the number of sounds in the words that you are going to use. Then have them "smash" each ball as they make the sound.

The "party favor" tubs are perfect because it's enough to use for the activity, but not so much that the students will be distracted and want to play. You can even have them trade their "balls" so that they are each using different colors.

#5 - Pipe Cleaners and Pony Beads

I learned this one when I was teaching transitional kindergarten (TK). It stuck with me because it's great for the kids to wear or take home. It also gives them a sense of ownership because you can have them assemble their own bracelets before you start practicing the segmenting and blending.

Just have them slide the pony beads onto the pipe cleaners and twist the ends of the pipe cleaners to close them. I love using this with my EL/ELL students. I let students take their bracelets home and tell them to teach segmenting and blending words to their parents, siblings, and pets. They love playing teacher, and it gives them more opportunities to build phonemic awareness.

#6 - Bingo Daubers

Bingo supplies and kindergarten sure do have a lot in common. There are two ways I use Bingo daubers.

Using scratch paper, have students segment words and "dot" each time they say a sound. When they are done segmenting, they can point to the dots as they blend the words back together.

For a more permanent resource, have students create a sound "tree" with Bingo daubers. Once the paint dries, students can point to the dots as they blend and segment words. You can even write their names on their paper and laminate it to make it more durable. Keep them at your small group table so that you can easily pull them out for warm-up activities. Students love having their sound mats, and they love using their friends' mats, too!

I hope that you and your students find these beginning phonemic awareness activities fun and engaging! With so many different ways to practice blending and segmenting sounds in words, your students are sure to build their phonemic awareness skills! Are you looking for more ways to practice phonemic awareness? Check out these teacher task cards by clicking here.

You can also read and about and download some FREE Phonemic Awareness worksheets by clicking here.

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Beginning Phonemic Awareness Activities - A Teachable Teacher

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Beginning phonemic awareness activities can be daunting. Seeing that phonemic awareness can be "done in the dark" (meaning that it doesn't involve using letters), it can seem as though it is an abstract concept to teach. However, building beginning phonemic awareness is vital in teaching children to read.

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Students put the picture cards in the pocket with correct number of sounds they hear in the word.  This activity can be as easy or hard as you make it.  The sorting can be with syllables or sounds.  Picture cards can be used for early readers and actual words can be used for readers allowing this activity to span multiple grade levels.

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This app teaches high frequency spelling words using visual and auditory learning.  This app is helpful for multiple grade levels and could be especially helpful for ELL students.

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The app has memory tricks, mouth and hand cues, songs, test and drills on the 44 English sounds and is also helpful for ELL students.  Best for early readers.

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The app has numerous activities for multiple levels that will benefit beginning learners as well as more advanced learners.  Is best for students learning that words are made up of different sounds up to more complex phonics.

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Hearing the sounds can help students understand different mouth positions and practice by echoing the sounds from the video.  This video can be especially helpful for ELL students by being able to hear the isolated English sounds.