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For teacher use primarily. Teacher can make themself aware of what activities students might be interested in for the future, and what skills are needed to participate.

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‎Learn to Read from the starfall.com website is now a FREE app! The Starfall Learn to Read FREE app is made possible by the member supporters of Starfall.com, a publicly supported nonprofit. The activities at Starfall.com motivate through exploration, positive reinforcement, and play. Since 2002 C...

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Intended for teacher-use only - otherwise this would be phonics.

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Phonemic Awareness Activities with Teacher Task Cards!

You know phonemic awareness is so important, and you do it in small groups...but sometimes it's hard to remember ALL the skills in the spectrum. Sometimes it's hard to think of one more pair of rhyming words. Sometimes it's hard to generate those silly sentences...Not anymore! With these Phonemic Awareness Teacher Task Card activities, you have over 100 systematic and explicit phonemic awareness building activities at your fingertips (literally)!
What are these?
Phonemic Awareness Teacher Task Cards are task cards that teachers can use to help their students build phonemic awareness. There are over 100 task cards that include skill building activities for the entire spectrum of phonemic awareness. All the activities are done orally, so there is no need for student copies or projector displays. The activities are scripted for a systematic and explicit approach, so simply read aloud and start building those skills with your students!
Why should I use these?
Time and time again, scientific research shows that phonemic awareness has a significant impact on learning to read. However, phonemic awareness is not just for children who will learn to read, it is also an effective intervention for students struggling with phonics. Research shows that instruction in phonemic awareness produces positive effects on decoding and word reading. Learning to listen to sounds in words can also foster improved spelling and writing.
When can I use these?
You can use these anytime during the day. Use them at your guided reading table, whole group on the carpet, while standing in line before leaving the classroom, one-on-one as an intervention, or as a classroom transition. Conveniently keep these task cards on a ring and be ready to use them anytime, anywhere!
The following skills/task cards are included with a clickable table of contents for your convenience!
-Beginning sounds discrimination

-Ending sounds discrimination

-Generating like phonemes

-Medial sound discrimination

-Identifying rhymes

-Generating rhymes

-Counting words in a sentence

-Alliterations

-Segmenting compound words

-Segmenting syllables

-Onset and rime

-Blending 2 phonemes

-Blending 3 phonemes

-Blending 4 phonemes

-Segmenting 2 phonemes

-Segmenting 3 phonemes

-Segmenting 4 phonemes

-Deleting compound words

-Deleting syllables

-Deleting phonemes

-Identifying phoneme position

-Switching syllables

-Beginning phoneme substitution/manipulation

-Medial phoneme substitution/manipulation

-Ending phoneme substitution/manipulation

Each task/skill is CLEARLY defined, with scripted teacher directions. Every task card is clearly labeled by skill and additional words/lists are provided for each skill to ensure your students get PLENTY of practice.

You only need ONE set of task cards, and they print four to a page to save ink and paper!

Pictures and directions included in both the preview and the file. Please see the preview for more details!

Enjoy!

Lauren
Are you looking for more phonemic awareness activities?
Check out these 100% picture based Phonemic Awareness Worksheets.

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Phonemic Awareness Activities with Teacher Task Cards!You know phonemic awareness is so important, and you do it in small groups...but sometimes it's hard to remember ALL the skills in the spectrum. Sometimes it's hard to think of one more pair of rhyming words. Sometimes it's hard to generate those...

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SONG - Party In The Jungle | Fun Phonemic Awareness Song | Jack Hartmann

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SONG - Party In The Jungle | Fun Phonemic Awareness Song | Jack Hartmann

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This might help with differentiation. A song could access new learning elements in the child's brain and trigger further learning or memory.

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Party In The Jungle | Fun Phonemic Awareness Song | Jack Hartmann

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Ideas for future activities or teacher -skill development. Included for the purpose of remaining curious about phonemic awareness.

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Good for discovering spelling patterns.

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Ideal activity for a whole class. There is no use of alphabet letters, only sounds.

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Pound and Sound: Helping Students Hear and Blend Phonemes

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Teacher can use this as a formative assessment if done with discretion.

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Before children can begin reading, they must develop strong phonemic awareness. If you ask your child, "what is the first sound you hear in ?" You want them to answer . If you ask your child, "what is the last sound you hear in ?" You want them to answer . Children need this skill before they can learn to read. Phonemic awareness skills are the basis for reading and without this important skill, potential reading difficulties might occur in the early reading stage. A child who has strong and solid phonemic awareness skills will have a strong reading foundation to develop with. Lets play a fun phonemic awareness game.

On today's post, I am going to share with you a really great movement game that will help your child listen for beginning and ending sounds in words. Your kiddos will really love this fun movement game that helps build phonemic awareness. So... let's get started with Sit or Stand: A fun phonemic awareness game.

You will say two words to your child. The child will stand up if the words begin with the same sound. The child will sit down if the beginning sounds do not match.

Butterfly - Ball (stand up)

Man - Monster (stay standing up)

Lollipop - Bear (sit down)

Jellybean - Jet (stand up)

Belt - Light (stay sitting down)

Cat - Cow (stay standing up)

Hop - Lip (stay standing up)

You will say two words to your child. The child will stand up if the words end with the same sound. The child will sit down if the ending sounds do not match.

Bag - Bean (stay sitting down)

Bat - Man (stay sitting down)

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Sit or Stand: A Fun Phonemic Awareness Game

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Before children can begin reading, they must develop strong phonemic awareness. If you ask your child, "what is the first sound you hear in ?" You want them to answer . If you ask your child, "what is the last sound you hear in ?" You want them to answer .

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These types of activities can be used as a review before venturing into deeper skills sets, or adapted for a leaner that needs to look back and learn a lesson once more.

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Blending Sounds to Read Words- Multisensory Activity

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The Make, Take & Teach Big Box of Phonemic Awareness Activities contains over 500 colorful and engaging pictures for teaching the skills of Syllabication, Rhyme, Beginning Sounds, Onset-Rime, Sound Isolation and Phoneme Segmentation. This kit also contains common core alignment and activity cards for each skill.

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Phonemic Awareness - The Big Box of Phonemic Awareness Activities

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The Make, Take & Teach Big Box of Phonemic Awareness Activities contains over 500 colorful and engaging pictures for teaching the skills of Syllabication, Rhyme, Beginning Sounds, Onset-Rime, Sound Isolation and Phoneme Segmentation. This kit also contains common core alignment and activity cards for

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Used in a one-on-one setting; perhaps useful in a guided reading setting.

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There are contained three assessments used for the purpose of monitoring progress at the beginning, middle, and end of year scenarios.

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Students will match initial phonemes in words. Students can connect their knowledge of the visual world with phonemic awareness skills.

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Teachers can play to the strengths and shore up the weaknesses of English Language Learners in each of the Reading First content areas. (See #1 in Linked Page)

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English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction

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Find out how teachers can play to the strengths and shore up the weaknesses of English Language Learners in each of the Reading First content areas.

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Early Sessions (Adapted from Kindergarten)

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Early Sessions (Adapted from Kindergarten)

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The phonemic awareness activities should be ongoing. Have students continue doing the games and activities with increasingly harder words.

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Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation

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In this phonemic awareness lesson designed for a first-grade classroom, students engage in games and chants to recognize the same sounds in different words. Students match objects with the same beginning or ending sound, identify whether a given sound occurs at the beginning or ending of a word, and connect phonemes with graphemes.

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The Zoophonics Program is a kinesthetic, multi-modal approach to learning all aspects of language arts, including vocabulary development and articulation, based on phonics and phonemic awareness.

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Zoo-phonics® curriculum meets Common Core Standards!

Teach your students the alphabet in TWO WEEKS! Faster than you ever expected your students will be reading, spelling and writing!

The Zoo-phonics® Multisensory Language Arts Program is a kinesthetic, multi-modal approach to learning all aspects of language arts, including vocabulary development and articulation, based on phonics and phonemic awareness.

The principle of Zoo-phonics® maximizes understanding, memory, utilization and transference to all areas of the reading, spelling and writing process in a playful and concrete manner.

Zoo-phonics® is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a "phono" (hearing), "oral" (speaking), "visual" (seeing), "kinesthetic" (moving), and tactile (touching)-whole brain approach. Students actually learn the sounds of the alphabet and advanced phonemic concepts through an easily understood, concrete method of presentation.

Zoo-phonics® uses animals drawn in the shapes of the letters for ease in memory. A related body movement is given for each letter. This concrete approach cements the sounds to the shapes of the letters. Lowercase letters and their sounds are taught first (needed 95% of the time in text), capital letters and letter names are taught later.

Zoo-phonics® also provides a springboard for all other academia such as math, art, music, cooking/nutrition, social studies, science, grooming, physical education and sensory/drama.

Every aspect of the program has been field-tested and found to be effective. Educational research repeatedly supports the focus of phonics in early reading programs, as well as the educational benefits of pictorial mnemonics and kinesthetic approaches to learning that are unique to Zoo-phonics®.

Currently Zoo-phonics® is used throughout the United States and internationally as a highly effective language arts program.

Zoo-phonics® is perfect for your classroom!

Students gain a firm foundation of the letter sounds and shapes and soon learn uppercase letters and letter names, and how to apply them to text.

The curriculum is age-appropriate, developmental, sequential and playful.

It is fully kinesthetic and multi-sensorial-children use their eyes, ears, mouths and bodies to learn.

Preschool children will begin sound blending, spelling, and writing by mid-year or earlier.

It is excellent for ELL/Transition/Special Ed students -a total physical response at its best because of the concrete Animal Letters and Body Movements.

It teaches those important high frequency words, phonetically and easily.

It easily teaches other more challenging graphemes/phonemes needed in early reading and writing (blends, digraphs, long vowels, diphthongs, the schwa sound, r - controlled vowels, silent letters, and soft sounds), still keeping learning playful!

The Animal letters integrate into calendar, alphabet song, favorite songs, art, music, science, math, dramatic play and physical education.

Parents will love their children's amazing academic growth, and you can train the parents too!

Zoo-phonics® provides a complete Language Arts Program that integrates with all other subjects.

Zoo-phonics® WILL REACH every child!

Zoo-phonics® will reach every child including...

Toddlers

Head Start

Preschool

Kindergarten

First Grade

English language Learners

Special Education (all grades)

The problem with the alphabet and learning how to read and spell is that it is too abstract. So we made it concrete...

The ESSENCES of Zoo-phonics®
Zoo-phonics® is an effective and proven methodology!

The Animal Alphabet helps children remember the shapes and sounds of the letters.

Letter sounds are taught before letter names.

Lowercase letters are taught before capital letters.

The Body Movement for each Animal Letter helps "cement" the phonemic information into memory.

The alphabet is taught sequentially, and as a whole entity, "a - z." The alphabet is not fragmented.

Short vowels are taught before long vowels.

Phonemic patterns (at, bat, fat, sat, etc.) are taught first, rather than random word lists (of, it, then, was, etc.)

The Zoo-phonics® curriculum is fully integrated with other subjects.

Click below to read about each of the Zoo-phonics® Essences in detail...

How Zoo-phonics® was DEVELOPED
Zoo-phonics® was developed by two experienced teachers in answer to the needs of their students!
The developers of Zoo-phonics®, with its accent on reinforcement through the multi-modal approach, are convinced that this system offers an outstanding alternative to past and present methods of teaching reading and spelling. It ties in easily with any reading series, literature and language arts program that a school may use. Current research supports the Zoo-phonics® Program...

Zoo-phonics® is a Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
Zoo-phonics® promotes optimal learning and development.
According to the NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children), "Developmentally appropriate practice, often shortened to DAP, is an approach to teaching grounded both in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about effective early education. Its framework is designed to promote young children's optimal learning and development. DAP involves teachers meeting young children where they are (by stage of development), both as individuals and as part of a group; and helping each child meet challenging and achievable learning goals."

Zoo-phonics® will close your classroom's GENDER GAP
Research finds that boys are slipping behind girls on almost all academic milestones!
The latest NAEP writing assessments (2007) show boys scoring an average 20 points lower than girls. For those in low economic areas or who are special education students, the chasm is even larger. The results reveal how crucial the early years of school are in laying the foundation to allay this discrepancy...

Zoo-phonics® will accelerate your TALENTED and GIFTED students
Zoo-phonics® provides a unique and challenging curriculum for talented and gifted students!
Talented and gifted students come to our classrooms with brains, minds and hearts hungry for learning. Too often, these students are left to their own devices or are given busy work. Delisle and Berger state, "A young, curious student may easily become 'turned off' if the educational environment is not stimulating... approaches are inappropriate...assignments are consistently too difficult or too easy."...

Zoo-phonics® and children with SPECIAL NEEDS
Let Zoo-phonics® assist your special needs students!
Besides learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD and dyslexia, children who, having been diagnosed with autism (including Asperger's Syndrome), apraxia, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, etc., have quickly learned the alphabet, and have been able to learn to read, spell and write through the Zoo-phonics® methodology. Children (and their parents) quickly see their own progress, and self-image and confidence grows. Children have been successfully mainstreamed or included because of the efficiency of this program...

Zoo-phonics® and ELL children
Give your English Language Learners fun, playful, effective instruction!
Zoo-phonics® supports ELL's (English Language Learners) by providing instruction and interaction while learning English. It's visual, auditory, aural and kinesthetic approach supports the ELL's need to use their eyes, ears, mouths, and bodies to learn how to speak, read, spell, and write. Zoo-phonics® provides explicit instruction in the structure of English, while still teaching in a creative and kinesthetic way...

Current RESEARCH supports Zoo-phonics®
You will see incredible results...independent research proves it!
Every aspect of the Zoo-phonics® Program has been field-tested and found to be effective. Educational research repeatedly supports the focus of phonics in early reading programs, as well as the educational benefits of pictorial mnemonics and kinesthetic approaches to learning that are unique to Zoo-phonics®...

Zoo-phonics® is based on Creating BRAIN-EFFICIENT Curriculum
An analysis of the changes necessary to create a methodology and curriculum that enhances student achievement in reading and spelling By Charlene A. Wrighton, 1995
The hottest educational issue of the past 10 years has NOT been whole language vs. phonics. It runs much deeper than that, primarily because whole language and phonics can be taught concurrently, if allowed. What, then, is the disparity that has widened the chasm within the educational system? In order to fully understand, we must analyze the issues carefully...

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Zoo-phonics® curriculum meets Common Core Standards! Teach your students the alphabet in TWO WEEKS! Faster than you ever expected your students will be reading, spelling and writing! The Zoo-phonics® Multisensory Language Arts Program is a kinesthetic, multi-modal approach to learning all aspects of language arts, including vocabulary development and articulation, based on phonics and phonemic ...

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Kids respond to hands-on learning. Try making a collage of items that start with the same sound using pictures from magazines. Sock puppets can be another fun way to work on these skills. Make one that likes to munch on words that start with a certain sound. (See #8 in Linked Page)

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Kids in pre-K and kindergarten can play with words, rhymes, and syllables they hear in everyday speech to prepare for reading. This is called phonological awareness.

Parents and caregivers can introduce phonological awareness during reading, singing, or play activities.

Kids who struggle with these kinds of activities may be showing early signs of reading issues.

There are a few ways kids in pre-K and kindergarten can get ready to read. One way is by noticing and playing with the words, rhymes, and syllables they hear in everyday speech. This called phonological awareness .

Kids also start to tune in to the individual sounds or phonemes in words. This is called phonemic awareness. The more you can build on these early "pre-reading" skills, the more prepared your child will be for the challenge of learning to read.

Good phonological awareness starts with kids picking up on sounds, syllables and rhymes in the words they hear. Read aloud to your child frequently. Choose books that rhyme or repeat the same sound. Draw your child's attention to rhymes: "Fox, socks, box! Those words all rhyme. Do you hear how they almost sound the same?"

It also helps to point out repeated sounds. For example, if you're reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, ask your child to listen to the /fffff/ sound in fish. (Really stretch the sounds out at first.) Outside of story time, try pointing out other words that start with the /fffff/ sound, just like in the book.

Ask your child to pick out the rhyming words in books without your help. Ask, "Did you hear a word that rhymes with fox?" Teach your child nursery rhymes and practice saying them together. Or say four short words, like log, cat, hog, frog. See if your child can pick out the word that doesn't rhyme.

Make syllables easier to understand by clapping the "beats" your child hears in words. Let's say you choose the word elephant. Pause as you say each syllable - e-le-phant - and clap out each syllable together. You can also get your child up and moving by having your child stomp or jump with each syllable.

Guessing games such as "I spy" can be used to work on almost any phonological skill. Want to practice noticing what sounds word begin with? Try "I spy something red that starts with /s/." Want to work on rhymes? "I'm wearing something warm that rhymes with boat."

Singing in general is a great way to get kids rhyming. There are also good songs teachers use to focus on other kinds of phonological and phonemic awareness skills. "Apples and Bananas" is a fun one. You can search online for more songs about phonemic awareness or ask your child's teacher for recommendations.

Sound blending is an important skill for early readers. They need to put sound units - phonemes - together to be able to read a word smoothly. You can help your child start working on this by putting together sounds of different words. Ask your child to connect the beginning sound with the rest of a word. For example, say, "Start with /p/ and add /ig/. What do word do you hear if you put them together?"

Have your child work on hearing a word and taking it apart. Start by using compound words such as cowboy, baseball or firefly. Tell your child, "Say the word cowboy. Now take away boy. What word is left?"

You can also use LEGO bricks to make this point. Give your child two attached LEGO bricks to represent parts of the word. Then have your child physically take the LEGO pieces apart while removing part of the word.

8. Get creative with crafts.

Kids respond to hands-on learning. Try making a collage of items that start with the same sound using pictures from magazines. Sock puppets can be another fun way to work on these skills. Make one that likes to munch on words that start with a certain sound. Let your child have fun "feeding" the puppet different objects or pictures that start with that sound.

There are many resources and ideas online to work on phonological and phonemic awareness skills. Check out YouTube for teaching videos, Pinterest for games and crafts, or the app store for nursery rhymes, sound games, and songs.

Whatever you do, keep the activities short and fun. If your child finds one activity too difficult or boring, try something different. If you find that activities of this type are too hard, talk to your classroom teacher . Your district's early childhood department may also be able to help you get extra help.

There are many ways to include sound play in your daily routine with your child.

Kids who play with sounds, syllables and rhymes when they are young are gaining important reading readiness skills.

If these skills are really difficult for your child, you may want to seek extra support in this area.

About the Author

About the Author

Kelli Johnson, MA is an educational speech-language pathologist, working with students from early childhood through 12th grade.

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9 ways to build phonological awareness in pre-K and kindergarten

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Kids in pre-K and kindergarten can play with words, rhymes, and syllables they hear in everyday speech to prepare for reading. This is called phonological awareness. Parents and caregivers can introduce phonological awareness during reading, singing, or play activities. Kids who struggle with these kinds of activities may be showing early signs of reading issues.

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May work well with students who have low attention span or those who benefit from visual/tactile experiences.

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‎Help develop phonics and literacy skills in early childhood learners (ages 3-8) with this simple matching game that teaches and reinforces ending letter sounds. Understanding how to decode words at an early age is an important component of literacy success! This little App makes phonics fun! Develo...

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Blending, Segmenting, & Sound Identification

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Blending, Segmenting, & Sound Identification

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Good to use in a one-on-one setting - not necessarily great for independent work etc.

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Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Word Sounds / Phonemes. Download Word Sounds / Phonemes and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

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Demonstrate Understanding of Phonemes (Sounds).

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