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Games for phonemic awareness skills and all other reading/writing skills

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1st grade Reading & Writing Online Games

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First grade begins a whole new learning adventure, and our first grade reading and writing games will help your child build the skills they need to succeed!

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Teacher resources including videos, games, and worksheets

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I help elementary teachers streamline their phonics and reading instruction by giving them all of the the information and resources they need to maximize every reading lesson and raise their students' reading levels once and for all.

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Phonemic Awareness Archives - A Teachable Teacher

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I help elementary teachers streamline their phonics and reading instruction by giving them all of the the information and resources they need to maximize every reading lesson and raise their students' reading levels once and for all.

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PBS learning website

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Rhyme Time | Sesame Street | PBS LearningMedia

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Learn all about rhyming with Grover in this fun train game! Conductor Grover leads the way as you drive the train and pick which words rhyme. Don't forget to blow the whistle! Choo Choo!

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Worksheets for phonemic awareness and phonics

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Consonant B b
Learn to say, read, write, and recognize the /b/ sound in words; Includes writing, coloring, and sorting phonics printables.
Consonant C c
Learn to say, read, write, and recognize the soft and hard-c sound in words; Students will enjoy these phonics sorting activities and writing worksheets.
Consonant D d
Learn to read, write, recognize, and say the /d/ sound ; Includes picture printables, word games, and coloring activities.
Consonant F f
Practice the /f/ sound, recognizing words that start with /f/, and sorting and color /f/ pictures and words.
Consonant G g
Practice the /g/ sound, recognizing words that start with /g/, and sorting and color /g/ pictures and words.
Consonant H h
Practice the /h/ sound, recognizing words that start with /h/, and sorting and color /h/ pictures and words.
Consonant J j
Practice the /j/ sound, recognizing words that start with /j/, and sorting and color /j/ pictures and words.
Consonant K k
Practice the /k/ sound, recognizing words that start with /k/, and sorting and color /k/ pictures and words.
Consonant L l
Practice the /l/ sound, recognizing words that start with /l/, and sorting and color /l/ pictures and words.
Consonant M m
Practice saying the /m/ sound, recognizing words that start with /m/, and sorting /m/ picture cards.
Consonant N n
Practice the /n/ sound, recognizing words that start with /n/, and sorting /n/ picture cards.
Consonant P p
Practice saying the /p/ sound, recognizing words that start with /p/, and sorting /p/ picture cards.
Consonant Q q
Learn to identify, sort, and write words that begin with the letters Qu.
Consonant R r
Learn about the sound made by the letter r. Includes sorting games, matching games, and worksheets.
Consonant S s
Learn about the sound made by the letter s. Includes matching games, card sorting activities, and printables.
Consonant T t
Worksheets to help students learn sound made by the letter t. Includes matching games, sorting activities, and printable worksheet.
Consonant V v
Simple worksheets for learning the consonant letter v.
Consonant W w
Word sorts, cut-and-glue activities, and worksheets for learning the /w/ sound.
Consonant X x
Here are several activities for learning the /x/ sound.
Consonant Y y
Yes, you can learn to read about yo-yos, yaks, yolks, and yarn with the /y/ worksheets.
Consonant Z z
Use these worksheets and games to practice reading words with the /z/ sound.
More Phonics Worksheets
More printable phonics worksheets, including vowels, blends, digraphs, and diphthongs.
Printing Letters
Manuscript printing worksheets for all letters of the alphabet.
Dolch Sight Words
Printable activities, flash cards, and word wheels for the Dolch sight words.
First Grade Reading Comprehension
Simple reading comprehension stories with questions for kids to answer.

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Phonics & Phonemic Awareness: Consonant Sounds

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Consonant B b Learn to say, read, write, and recognize the /b/ sound in words; Includes writing, coloring, and sorting phonics printables. Consonant C c Learn to say, read, write, and recognize the soft and hard-c sound in words; Students will enjoy these phonics sorting activities and writing worksheets.

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Apps for parents and teachers

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Phonemic Awareness is a foundational skill necessary for reading. Using apps to teach phonemic awareness is a fun way to sneak some learning in while you and your kids are having fun.

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Phonemic awareness is a foundational skill for reading. It is the ability to hear and manipulate phonemes (sounds) in words. Almost all kids who struggle with reading will have weak phonemic awareness skills. Phonemic Awareness skills develop naturally in traditional learners but kids with language-based learning differences need explicit instruction in phonemic awareness to develop these skills.

Here are a few posts I've written on Phonemic Awareness if you want ore information:

Both of these posts contain printed resources for teaching phonemic awareness.

Best Apps for Teaching Phonemic Awareness

The following 11 apps are some of the highest rated apps available.

(4.99 each or purchase the Simplex Spelling School Literacy Curriculum Bundle of 4 apps for 13.99)

A highly regarding teaching tool, Simplex Spelling teaches high frequency spelling words organized by spelling patterns. Every word is broken down into its syllables both visually and auditorily to help students build phonological awareness skills. The Simplex spelling 'reverse phonics' hint feature breaks each word down further into individual phonemes to improve phonemic awareness, a critical skill and achieving literacy. Visit the developer web site to see word lists for each level and determine the best level for your kids.

(free)

The What's Changed Skill Builder app has been specifically designed to develop students' phonemic awareness. What's Changed? focuses on developing phonemic awareness with vowel sounds and consonant blends through exercises that require students to listen to two non-words and identify what changed between the two words. It also helps to develop segmentation and blending skills.

Students develop the core foundational skills that make up phonemic awareness by identifying the type of change that occurred, including:
- identifying the sound that changed ('zat' to 'zad')
- substituting a new letter for the sound that changed ('feld' to 'fald')
- specifying the letter for a sound that was added or omitted ('strek' to 'stek')
- switching two letters for sounds that were switched ('blist' to 'blits')

(3.99)

This interactive app helps individuals learn phonemes in a fun and engaging way. Four activities include:
- Breaking up words - Segmenting
- What word? - Blending
- How many sounds? (drag and drop)
- Identify the number of sounds with the number of letters and syllables provided

(3.99)

Practice early and basic phonemic awareness skills with this interactive app that helps individuals identify the different sounds that make up words in a fun and engaging way.

Four activities include:
- Do these two rhyme?
- Find the picture that rhymes with the word
- Word families - drag and drop
- Identifying the rhyming pair from 6 pictures

Teach Speech Apps also has a variety of bundles that can be purchased:

Teach Speech Apps Bundle 1: Prepositions, Rhyming Words, and Pronouns (8.99)

Teach Speech Apps Bundel 2: Following Directions, Wh Questions, Rhyming Words (8.99)

(free)

Assessments for Phonological Awareness with Progress monitoring. GAAP allows teachers to assess a student, track their learning objectives, while providing instructional aids. It can be used for accommodations all while trending student's growth through years, teachers, and classrooms.

* Assessments: Letter Recognition, Letter Sounds, Rhyming, Blending, Segmenting/Chopping, High frequency words
* Ability to monitor classroom progress
* Ability to monitor student progress
* Ability to assess effectiveness of intervention activities
* Instant feedback on students grasp of concepts taught
* Standard measurement for skills assessment
* Ability to monitor student through classrooms and grades
* Data to trend students growth, identify areas of support for teachers

(24.99)

Targeting phonemic (sound) awareness, phonics, and speech production, the three unique teaching activities are based on the key techniques of the world-renowned, research-based program, Lively Letters, created by speech language pathologist, Nancy Telian.

Flashing: This activity introduces, drills, and tests the letter sound associations for the 44 English speech sounds, using the multisensory cueing methods that Lively Letters is so famous for. As the chosen letters flash in, students can hear the associated sound, the song, and the story.

Tracking: In this activity, students engage in the powerful Lively Letters manipulative word play, (tracking) activities. Here you simultaneously train phonemic awareness and phonics, while further practicing letter sounds and speech production. Students have fun building the critical phonemic awareness skills of sound blending, segmenting, and manipulation while learning how to sound out words of increasing length and difficulty for reading and spelling.

Matching: Here's a playful way to practice letter sound associations and speech production skills. This activity also offers opportunities to associate uppercase to lowercase letters and to transition from Lively Letters pictures to plain letters. Students have fun playing the classic Match Game, now using the letters and letter types chosen.

(9.99)

Sound Literacy is a large, well-organized collection of electronic "tiles." It includes blank tiles for phonemic awareness activities; graphemes-individual letters and consonant and vowel clusters such as sh, ng, igh, aw for phonics activities; and morphemes-prefixes, suffixes, Latin roots, and Greek combining forms-for advanced word study activities. It also includes sound charts for consonant and vowel phonemes. This would be a fun way to teach phonemic awareness with any curriculum.

(21.99)

Phonological Awareness Lab (PAL) is a fun, multi-level game specifically designed to improve phonological awareness in children. Designed by a certified speech-language pathologist, PAL incorporates a fun science lab theme to encourage children to demonstrate their phonological awareness.
Created to help teach phonological awareness, PAL incorporates four (4) "labs" to target the essential phonological awareness skills needed for reading.
* The Sentence Experiment Lab
* The Decoding Room
* The Rhyming Compound
* The Syllable X-Ray
Inside the Decoding Room and Rhyming Compound are multiple levels of activities including blending syllables, blending sounds, rhyming identification, rhyming selection, and rhyming match.

Hearbuilder Phonological Awareness

(free with membership to their online program at Super Duper Publications)

Program Features:
* Targets nine phonological awareness skills: Sentence Segmentation, Syllable Blending, Syllable Segmentation, Rhyming, Phoneme Blending, Phoneme Segmentation & Identification, Phoneme Deletion, Phoneme Addition, Phoneme Manipulation
* Multi-level program gradually increases in difficulty
* Teaches children important listening and sound awareness for reading
* Monitors progress and provides frequent feedback

With a subscription to HearBuilder Online you can:
* Access all four HearBuilder programs - Following Directions, Phonological Awareness, Auditory Memory and Sequencing
* Monitor progress and track student data
* Individualize each student's program settings
* Set levels of difficulty for each activity
* Customize and print reports

Lots of rhyming apps

Rhyming is a basic component of phonemic awareness. Reading strategies that use rhyming as part of their phonemic awareness program help foster the best literacy rates among children and help to create children that really know how to read well.

(free)

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Teaching phonemic awareness doesn't have to be a chore. Have fun teaching with these award-winning apps.

How about you? How are you teaching your kids phonemic awareness?

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Apps for Teaching Phonemic Awareness | Homeschooling with Dyslexia

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Phonemic Awareness is a foundational skill necessary for reading. Using apps to teach phonemic awareness is a fun way to sneak some learning in while you and your kids are having fun. Phonemic awareness is a foundational skill for reading. It is the ability to hear and manipulate phonemes (sounds) in words.

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Printable activities/worksheets for phonemic awareness skills

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

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Rhyme games

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Learning words that rhyme can be a fun and engaging way to improve your vocabulary, language skills, and phonological awareness. Rhyming words share similar sounds at the end of the word, which can help with pronunciation and creative writing. Here are some examples of words that rhyme:

Remember that these are just a few examples, and there are countless rhyming words in the English language. You can explore rhyming dictionaries or engage in activities like reading poetry, singing songs, or playing word games to expand your repertoire of rhyming words.

In the game Words that Rhyme, young learners are introduced to the concept of rhyming and learn to build sounds and word relationships. Specifically, the children will be looking for end rhymes, with three pairs of rhyming words on each screen. Rhyming is an important skill to master, as it sharpens auditory awareness and heightens a child's ability to play with words and use them with more precision.
Once you click through the OK button to begin playing the game, it takes you through the brief instructions, which encourages you to look for three pairs of rhyming words on each page. Pictures show up on the screen with words at the bottom of each like digital flashcards. If the child does not know the word, they simply press the auditory button on the left of each word and it will be read aloud to them. Locate two rhyming words on the screen, and click once on each to pair them up as a correct rhyme.
Once you click a correct pair, the narrator will announce that A rhymes with B, and whisk the cards away. Incorrect matches get a slightly harsh sound and a "This is incorrect." statement. A timer does continuously tick up as you play, bringing more and more screens of matching rhyming words. The words begin simply, with only three letter simple words being used, but it quickly amps up with each subsequent screen if they are able to handle it. Learning rhyming skills is an essential skill to have and can be practiced here while employing other senses along with it.

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Rhyming Words | Rhyming Words For Kids | Phonics Games | Turtle Diary

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Partners in Rhyme is an online game for young toddlers about rhyming words. It helps them build sound and word relationships. In this game, kids get a set of words,

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Phonemic Games

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Syllables

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Syllables

Syllables play an important role in spoken English in that they greatly influence the rhythm of the language, its poetic meter and its stress patterns. Syllables are also important very early on as their mastery dictates a child's success in reading. Kids enjoy learning about syllables using fun online games. These syllable games teach children how to recognize syllables and how to use them properly in reading and writing. Many teachers have even started using online games to assist in their classroom teachings. Online syllable games can be a great tool for the classroom while teaching language arts lessons.

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Syllables play an important role in spoken English in that they greatly influence the rhythm of the language, its poetic meter and its stress patterns. Syllables are also important very early on as their mastery dictates a child's success in reading. Kids enjoy learning about syllables using fun online games.

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Apps for phonemic awareness and phonics

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Reading Doctor | Apps for teaching kids to read and spell

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What is phonemic awareness?

Phonemic awareness is a term that means 'awareness of the individual speech sounds of language'. The term comes from the word 'phoneme', which is the technical term for a single speech sound in spoken language. That's easy to remember if you know that the word 'phoneme' comes from the word 'phone', which means 'sound'!

For example, what are the speech sounds in the word 'spin'? Remember, we are not talking about the letters in the word (i.e. "ess, pea, eye, owe, en"), but the speech sounds made by the mouth.

Move your mouse or your finger over the numbers below to hear the speech sounds:

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Phonemic awareness - Reading Doctor | Apps for teaching kids to read and spell

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Phonemic awareness is a term that means 'awareness of the individual speech sounds of language'. The term comes from the word 'phoneme', which is the technical term for a single speech sound in spoken language. That's easy to remember if you know that the word 'phoneme' comes from the word 'phone', which means 'sound'!

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Blending Words

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Phenomene Manipulation

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20 cards to identify initial sounds. Build critical pre-reading skills with interactive, no-print resources. These are perfect for Speech Teletherapy / Speech Telepractice.
>>> SEE THE COMPLETE PHONEMIC AWARENESS BUNDLE HERE <<<
Phonemic (Phonological) Awareness is critical to reading success.

►When you download this product, you will receive a PDF with a link to the digital task cards on the Boom Learning Site.
See all my Boom Cards HERE

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FREE Phonemic Awareness | Boom Cards Speech Therapy | Distance Learning

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20 cards to identify initial sounds. Build critical pre-reading skills with interactive, no-print resources. These are perfect for Speech Teletherapy / Speech Telepractice. >>> SEE THE COMPLETE PHONEMIC AWARENESS BUNDLE HERE <<< Phonemic (Phonological) Awareness is critical to reading success.