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Rhyme Time - Hooked on Phonics: Learn to Read

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Books shelved as phonemic-awareness: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes, Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke by Pam...

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Kindergarten Read Aloud of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

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ABCmouse.com's reading curriculum spans the entire range of early reading, from learning the names of each letter and the sounds they represent to being able to read books, starting with a few words on a page and gradually advancing to paragraphs.

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The Math Curriculum Includes:

Recognizing and counting numbers 1-120

The base ten system

Place value

Addition and subtraction

Names and attributes of 2D and 3D shapes

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Science and Social Studies

ABCmouse.com's science and social studies curriculum helps children understand the world they live in and inspires curiosity.

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The Art & Colors Curriculum Includes:

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Paint-by-number activities

Number and letter dot-to-dots

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Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino Read Aloud by Books Read Aloud For Children

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Down by the Bay with Lyrics - Nursery Rhymes - Children’s Songs by The Learning Station

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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!

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Are you looking for more phonemic awareness activities?
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K - 2

Lesson Plan Type

Standard Lesson

Estimated Time

Two 30-minute sessions

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Student Objectives Extensions Student Assessment/Reflections
STUDENT OBJECTIVES

Students will

Generate a rhyming word for a given keyword

Choose a rhyming picture to match a given key picture

Work with partners to generate and recognize rhyming pictures

Match two rhyming pictures

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Once all students have found their rhyming partners, ask them if they know the song "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Tell students that they are going to be singing a different version of the song today. The song goes as follows:

Who has a word that rhymes with________, rhymes with ________, rhymes with __________; Who has a word that rhymes with __________, Oh Yes! the word is __________.

__(name)____ has ________ which rhymes with _______, rhymes with _______, rhymes with ________. ___(name)__ has _____ which rhymes with _______. ________ and ______ they rhyme!

The song would go like this:

Who has a word that rhymes with cat, rhymes with cat, rhymes with cat, Who has a word that rhymes with cat, Oh Yes! The word is bat.

Jesse has bat which rhymes with cat, rhymes with cat, rhymes with cat, Jesse has bat which rhymes with cat. Cat and bat, they rhyme!

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Sing the song with students, calling up one student from the pair and having the second student (the rhyming word) call out their word at the appropriate time in the song. Ask all students to sing along and sing 12 verses so that all partners get a chance to participate with their rhyming words.

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Display "Down by the Bay". Point to each of the pictures and name each one aloud so students are familiar with them. The pictures that are not inserted within the poem should be displayed at the bottom of the chart.

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Pass out the individual worksheet (the last worksheet in the lesson pack) to students and ask them to draw a line between each rhyming word pair.

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EXTENSIONS

To extend these activities, have students play other rhyming games. They can also create new versions of the song or poem with different rhyming words and illustrate the words to create a class book.

Use the Scholastic online game Rhyming Rhino for added reinforcement.

Have students access the online interactive Construct-a-Word to gain more practice with word families. Similar to a magnetic board, students manipulate letters on the screen to make rhyming words.

STUDENT ASSESSMENT/REFLECTIONS

Assess students' understanding of rhyming words using the worksheet completed individually.

Informal observation can also be used during the activities to see if students are able to verbalize the rhyming pairs or recognize rhyming picture words.

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Generating Rhymes: Developing Phonemic Awareness - ReadWriteThink

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Our curriculum is based on the following 110 games, arranged in an order that's research-supported and classroom-proven to lead to successful reading. Each game builds on the skills taught in the previous games, and the children should be confident on each of the previous lessons before they move on to a new lesson.

Children who complete this pre-reading curriculum will have a strong foundation for learning to read and will be ready to start a traditional reading curriculum of phonics and sight words.

NOTE: Be sure to consult our Before You Start page and our Pacing & Assessment page before you dive in!

1a. Phonological Awareness - Sounds in Language

1b. Phonemic Awareness - Sounds in Words

Each lesson takes approximately 15 minutes and is most effective when taught to children individually or in small groups (2-5 children). Use your lesson time to present one new game, and possibly devote 5 minutes at the end to review an activity the child has already mastered.
More Teaching Tips
Every child is different and will move through our curriculum at a different pace. A child who breezes through the Rhyming games may struggle with Compound Words, while another child will struggle with Rhyming but master the Compound Words activities very quickly.

Many of our activity pages feature recommendations for adjusting the activity to the needs of your particular child or classroom:

Confidence Builders make the game a little easier for struggling students.

Extensions offer extra challenges for children who have already mastered the main activity.

Variations suggest options for changing up the game a little to add variety.

Group Variations offer tips for scaling up from an individual child to a group of children.

Our Curriculum is specially designed and organized to lead your child from toddlerhood to full readiness for reading. Go through all the activities in order, making sure your child has a good handle on each one before you move on to the next.

Print out our Phonemic Awareness Pacing Guide for suggestions on how to focus your lessons for children of different ages. When your child reaches the end of our program, he/she will know all the letter sounds and will be well on his/her way to learning to read!

Q: How old does my child need to be before I start teaching him Phonemic Awareness?
A:The Phonemic Awareness curriculum is generally recommended for children who are three to five years old. Some of the Listening activities can be done with a child as young as two, but only if the child is a willing participant.

Q: How long will it take to go through the entire Phonemic Awareness curriculum?
A: Again, this depends on your particular child or group of children. The average time, for typical four-year-old children, is ten months or one school year.

Q: All the pages have scripts for how to do each activity. Do I really need to follow the script exactly?
A: We have worked hard to develop scripts that will make each activity go as smoothly as possible. Our scripts use age-appropriate vocabulary and terminology. We strongly recommend that you not add much to the script, particularly extra words that "clutter up" the activity and confuse or distract the child from the task at hand.

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Our curriculum is based on the following 110 games, arranged in an order that's research-supported and classroom-proven to lead to successful reading. Each game builds on the skills taught in the previous games, and the children should be confident on each of the previous lessons before they move on to a new lesson.

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Estimated Time

Three 25-minute sessions

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From Theory to Practice
OVERVIEW

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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FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

Yopp, H.K., & Yopp, R.H. (2000). Supporting phonemic awareness development in the classroom. The Reading Teacher, 54, 130–143.
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Phonemic awareness, which is the awareness that speech consists of a sequence of sounds, should be a priority in early reading instruction.

Phonemic awareness instruction should provide students with "linguistic stimulation in the form of storytelling, word games, rhymes, and riddles."

Phonemic awareness instruction should move from rhyming words to smaller units of sound, and finally to individual phonemes

Phonemic awareness instruction can be strictly oral or may include some sort of concrete cue.

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Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation - ReadWriteThink

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Your young learners will love this set of simple board games that build phonemic awareness!
Phonemic awareness.
What does it mean, anyway?

It's a scary-sounding phrase, but it's really not that complicated. It has to do with hearing and manipulating sounds in words. While some phonemic awareness activities may be used alongside letters, most of them don't.

If you ask a child to tell you the beginning sound of sandwich, and s/he says sssss, that's great! Isolating beginning sounds is one key component of phonemic awareness - and it's exactly what we're going to focus on with this set of games.

We have six children, and our oldest four developed phonemic awareness without a lot of intentionality on my part. I read to them often, and we did a variety of early learning activities - but I didn't have to explicitly teach phonemic awareness. For all of them (now 10, 9, 7, and 5) phonemic awareness just cam e.

This hasn't been true of my Three (almost four). Thankfully, she's catching on with the playful activities and games that I've been sharing over the past few months.

Print and cut apart the dot cards at the end of the file.

Grab playing pieces.

Take turns moving along the board by drawing a dot card and moving that number of spaces.

When you land on a space, say the picture's name and its beginning sound.

How to play the games
When my Three landed on a picture, she often stretched that initial sound instead of isolating it. For example, "Milk. Mmmmmilk." Or "Sandwich. Ssssandwich." Fine by me! My goal was for her to hear and identify that beginning sound - and she was doing it!

Sometimes she was frustrated and didn't want to try. Tiger was hard for her. Can you guess why?

It's because /t/ is not a continuous sound. Mmmmmmm and Sssssss were the other two sounds featured in the first game and were much easier.

When she hit a roadblock, she told me to do it. So I did.

"Hmm... is it /m/? Mmm, mmm, miger! No? Is it /g/? /G/, /g/, geiger?" After I was a little silly she was ready to get back in the game.

I chose to use those dot cards because my Three isn't real quick at knowing the dots on a die yet. Another reason is that it's a short game board. If your learner rolls a six three times, the game is over!

The dot cards gave her just enough turns without a single game overwhelming her.

After we played one game, she was willing to play one more. Each game adds a new letter's sound and bumps one sound off. So for example, the first game featured the sounds of m, s, and t. The second game features the sounds of s, t, and a.

I would say that she isolated (or stretched) the beginning sound correctly about 75% of the time. By the time we were finishing (after about 5-10 minutes), she was tired and gave up quickly. Ax (pictured above) was too hard.

So what do you think? Will these work for your learners? I hope you enjoy the 25 free games you can get in the download. These games come in color, but feel free to print in grayscale if you'd like.

BUILD A STRONG READING FOUNDATION

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If you have learners who struggle to isolate beginning sounds, these free phonemic awareness games are the perfect fit! Use them in preschool or kindergarten. Use them in literacy centers or small groups. #phonemicawareness #preschool #kindergarten

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The Phonics Method: A Comprehensive Guide to Learning to Read

Learning to read is a monumental milestone in any child's life, and there are various ways to approach it. One of the most effective and widely used methods is phonics. In this guide, we'll delve into the phonics method for kids, providing you with valuable insights into phonics worksheets, phonics games, and phonics songs, among other resources.

Phonics Definition: What Is Phonics?

Phonics is a method of teaching reading by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetical writing system. In simpler terms, phonics connects the dots between the sounds we hear and the letters we see. Understanding phonics can significantly help children decode words, thereby improving their reading and comprehension skills.

The Importance of Phonics Alphabet

The phonics alphabet is the cornerstone of any phonics curriculum. This specialized alphabet focuses on teaching the sounds associated with each letter, aiding in the child's ability to recognize and understand words. Knowing the phonics alphabet equips children with the tools they need to decode unfamiliar words, fostering an increased level of reading confidence.

Getting Hooked on Phonics

The term "Hooked on Phonics" is more than just a catchy phrase; it symbolizes the transformative power of this teaching method. Children who grasp phonics early on often show accelerated progress in reading, writing, and comprehension. They're "hooked" because phonics makes reading understandable and enjoyable, serving as a strong foundation for a lifetime of literacy. Although it is associated with a successful brand, Kiz Phonics has been shown to be simply effective.

Phonics Games: Learning Through Play

Children learn best when they're having fun. Phonics games offer an interactive way for kids to grasp the connection between letters and sounds. Whether it's online games or board games, this approach makes the learning experience more engaging. Games often target different skills-from letter recognition to word formation-and they can be particularly helpful for reinforcing the phonics rules. For some engaging phonics games suitable for kindergarten and beyond, check out Kiz Phonics.

The Power of Phonics Songs and ABC Songs

Music is a powerful educational tool, particularly for younger children. Phonics songs and ABC songs can introduce kids to the sounds and letters of the alphabet in a fun and engaging way. These songs are catchy and memorable, which aids in the retention of the information. You might find that your child hums along to a phonics song, absorbing vital literacy skills without even realizing it!

Phonics Worksheets: Practice Makes Perfect

Worksheets play an integral part in any phonics curriculum. Phonics worksheets provide children with the opportunity to practice what they've learned in a structured format. These worksheets can range from tracing letters to completing word puzzles and can be targeted for different age groups, including resources like kindergarten worksheets.

Understanding Sound Charts

Sound charts or phonics charts are visual aids that display the various sounds and their corresponding letters or letter combinations. These charts serve as quick references for children, helping them recognize and remember the phonetic sounds. Placing a sound chart in your child's study area can reinforce daily learning.

Phonics Rules: The Backbone of the Method

While phonics offers a more intuitive approach to reading than memorization, it does have its rules that need to be understood. These phonics rules provide a framework for understanding the relationship between letters and sounds, guiding children through the complexities of the English language. An example could be the rule that an 'e' at the end of a word often makes the vowel sound long, as in 'cake'.

Phonics Teaching: How to Approach It?

Effective phonics teaching combines various resources like games, worksheets, songs, and sound charts. It's also important to offer consistent practice and to proceed at a pace comfortable for the child. Each child is unique, and the phonics teaching method must be flexible enough to accommodate these individual needs.

A Comprehensive Phonics Curriculum: The Final Piece of the Puzzle

The various components we've discussed-games, songs, worksheets, sound charts, and rules-come together to form a comprehensive phonics curriculum. A well-rounded curriculum considers the child's age, skill level, and learning preferences, providing a multi-faceted approach to phonics instruction. To explore a program that encompasses all these elements, you can visit Kiz Phonics which is among the most effective, right up there with Jolly Phonics and Hooked on Phonics.

Concluding Thoughts: The Lifetime Benefits of Phonics

Learning to read is a skill that sets the groundwork for academic success and overall confidence. Phonics serves as an effective, intuitive, and engaging method to accomplish this. With the right approach, incorporating phonics songs, phonics worksheets, and phonics games can make the learning process an enriching experience for children. Set your child on the path to literacy by embracing the power of phonics.

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Phonics Activities to Teach kids to Read with ABC Phonics/ Kiz Phonics

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Kiz Phonics is an excellent progressive program to teach kids to read using a synthetic phonics approach. You get a complete set of activities to teach phonics, structured by levels from preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade to 2nd grade. We offer the following phonics activities for your preschool, kindergarten, first and second grade learners.