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Invite the children to sit down and close their eyes so that they can concentrate on what they will hear. Then recite or read aloud a familiar story or poem to the children but, once in a while, by changing its words or wording, change its sense to nonsense. The children's challenge is to detect such changes whenever they occur. When they do, encourage them to explain what was wrong. As the game is replayed in more subtle variations across the year.

Example: The eensy weensy spider went up the spouter wat.

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Old MacDonald Activity:

- Procedure: Teacher begins singing, “Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on that farm he had a /t/i/ g/er/, E-I-E-I-O”. Repeat the song but this time blending the word. Then at the end show an image of a tiger to the class so they can connect the word to an image.

- Strategy: Helps students to build their blending skills.

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http://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-letter-sounds-activity-clip-cards/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=New+alphabet+clip+cards,+preschool+math+activities+%26+reading+comprehension&utm_campaign=20150205_m124298482_New+alphabet+clip+cards,+preschool+math+activities+%26+reading+comprehension&utm_term=Get+your+free+set+of+cards+here_

Students are to put a peg on the sound that matches the sound in the picture. See image and link for clarification.

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Strategies segmenting a word into sounds 🐝
Students sit in a circle with a stuffed bumble bee toy that is passed around. The teacher begins with "Bippity boppity bumble bee, will you say your name for me?" Student then says their name, teacher says "lets all say it", class sounds out the name and claps for each syllable. "Bippity boppity bumble bee, thank you for saying your name for me". After students are used to the game, have a student take on the teacher role 🐝

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The bag game - isolating phonemes. Link to article with more information is included in description below: -

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Spread a few pictures out in the middle of a circle of children. Then ask the children to find those pictures whose names start with the initial sound on which they have just been working. As each picture is found, the child is to say its name and initial phoneme. (f f f f/ ish)

Call the children to line up by naming their first names without the initial sound (e.g., [J]-onathan). The children have to figure out whose name has been called and what sound is missing. (e.g., [St]-anley).

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HOPPING THE SOUNDS IN WORDS
Using rubber mats/dots children hop forward as they say each sound in the word. Helps children learn the segmenting strategy in phonemic awareness

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http://thisreadingmama.com/free-syllable-counting-cards/

Clip cards used with a picture on the front, students to put a small object under to separate the syllables (I would use m&m's YUMMY).

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Activity: Changing sounds at the beginning of students' names to create a fun and silly song.
Strategy: Builds manipulating strategy, by substituting sounds for others.
Materials: list of children's names
Procedure: while sitting with a group of students, call their names but change the initial sound for another. Ask the students to listen for their names!