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Phonemic awareness is the awareness and manipulation of distinctive individual phonemes which are sounds. Phonemic awareness embodies the ability to hear, think about, identify, and manipulate sounds in spoken words. In other words, it is learning the relationship between sounds and printed words.

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I chose this category because it is an area I have learned immensely in. It was difficulty for me to distinguish between phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics. The knowledge I have gained in this area is currently applied into my classroom.

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Isolating individual sounds.
In the activity below provided by Reading by Phonics, this worksheet gives prompts and focus for a letter. The student must mark where they hear that specific phoneme (beginning, middle, or end). This will help children identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words. This activity is appropriate for different types of learners. I would recommend this activity for ELL students and students who are beginning phonemic awareness instruction

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Identifying common sounds.
The following game is from ABCya.com. The Mansion Match: Alphabet Match is a game that can be played with letter match or letter sound match. This is appropriate for all learners! This helps children recognize letter name and sound. As well, it records the percentage the child got right at the end so they can monitor their own progress and try again for the next game. I use this game for my students who have alphabet recognition as one of their IEP goals.

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ABCya! * Monster Mansion Match - Match Sounds to the Alphabet

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Monster Mansion Match - Alphabet Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching letter sounds to beginning word sounds, for example, "A" = "Apple". Letters and their matching words are written on friendly monsters in the windows of the mansion. Kids can play by memory or while seeing the letters and words.

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Identifying words that sound different or that do not belong. In the article below, Anna Ranson explains a great activity appropriate for Kindergarten and 1st Grade. The Sorting Baskets activities consists of allocating baskets to a specific phonemes. This is a great sensory activity for children which helps with engagement. Next, you grab items for each phoneme. Have these items laid out for the student and have them sort the items according to the beginning phoneme in the word. This can be modified during distance learner by having columns for phonemes. Then having images of certain items and having the student allocate the images into the correct phoneme column.

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Set up a fun phonics activity for preschoolers and school aged children with this sorting objects into baskets game! This takes no preparation at all and can be played in different ways to suit the age or stage of each child involved.

Pop has been enjoying learning all her letter sounds (phonemes) and their corresponding names and shapes (graphemes) with all of our playful alphabet activities. I made her a phonics activity that I used to play with my Reception/ Kindergarten classes when I was teaching, using baskets and everyday objects to sort into them, according their phonemes.

This is one of those playful activities that takes very little preparation time and can be adapted for travel or turned into a busy bag for pulling out at a moments notice.

I found some baskets and wrote out 4 phonemes that I wanted her to practise onto card, then cut them out. I collected a number of small items from around the house that had those phonemes as their initial sound and then mixed them up in a pile in front of the baskets, ready to be sorted. Obviously you need to base this on your own child's ability and focus on sounds they may need help with. This is a good way to introduce new phoneme sets in small groups in the classroom too.

We talked about how the first sound we say in a word was the one that we were going to listen out for, and emphasised how to hear and say each on by saying it out loud and segmenting it form the rest of the word. "This is a dddd-og" so what's the first sound that it begins with? "d, yes!" She was then able to copy that approach with each object she picked up, saying its name and hearing its first sound, before deciding which basket to place it in.

She recognised all of the graphemes and we will now take a next step of choosing more unfamiliar ones to practise. After this it will make sense to move onto some digraphs such as "ch", "sh" and "th" and I will be setting up this game for her big sister Cakie soon.

Another way to extend the play is to take the baskets and ask the children to go on a phonics hunt around the home themselves, finding appropriate objects to fill each one.

Moving onto hearing and distinguishing ending sounds is also a next progression and could provide a lot more challenge for more able children.
What they are learning as they play:
literacy: discriminating initial phonemes in words, naming objects, sorting by phoneme, matching phonemes and graphemes, recognising graphemes by sight

maths: sorting objects according to one criteria

Cakie: 5.6

Pop: 4.0

Bean: 2.1

See all our Playful Literacy activities here, including phonics, alphabet work, story-telling, writing and pre-reading.

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Sorting Baskets Phonics Activity - The Imagination Tree

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Set up a fun phonics activity for preschoolers and school aged children with this sorting objects into baskets game! Easy, low-preparation and adaptable

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Replacing a phoneme with another phoneme to form a new word. The attached resource is from the creator Second Grade Sizzle-Kacie Biggs. This resource is free to download! This activity includes 20 cards with a word and the objective of each word. This visual helps children see how the word is spelled and a picture of the focused word. The objective is to substitute a sound with another sounds. This activity is appropriate for different types of learners.

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Use this little FREEBIE as a whole group phoneme substitution activity. Students could also use this with partners.
Includes 20 cards, substituting beginning, middle, and end phonemes in words.

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Teacher or adult say a words aloud and student will count the number of individual sounds or phonemes by breaking it up. Segmentation can help children listen closely to how many sounds they hear. This uses more auditory component and the specific chip activity shown in the video by Reading Rockets is more appropriate for Kindergarten and 1st Grade.

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Teacher or adult will say each phoneme segment sound and student will combine all of them to form a word. The below is provided from Education.com. The objective is to build bridges by building words using blending skills. Children can visually see and critically think about what letters are being used in the word given. This game is appropriate for different type of learners.

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Build bridges by building words in this silly game that tests your kindergartener's knowledge of using blends in spelling! As your child comes across each broken bridge in Blending Sounds Spelling, they'll need to spell a word using letter blocks. Each word has a colorful illustration to help, and a narrator sounds out each letter as your child spells, emphasizing letter sound relationships.

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Blending Sounds Spelling Game | Game | Education.com

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Kids build blending and spelling skills to help get the gang to school in time.

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This nursery song by The Learning Station helps with substitution skill using a familiar song. This nursery song can helps children have fun using substitution skills and make silly words.

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TheLearningStation - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Apples and Bananas with Lyrics - Vowel Songs - Kids Songs by The Learning Station

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The following game is provided by ABCya.com. The focus of the game. A focus word is give along with 3 other words. The objective is to match one of the 3 words that rhymes the focus word. This is great for all learners! Children can click on each word and hear and see how words are spelled. This enforces the recognition with print and auditory processing.

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Alphabats - Rhyming Words is a fun word game that helps students practice phonemic awareness. Kids click on the bats’ bellies to hear the words, then match the words with rhyming sounds. After matching 6 words correctly, players get to help the bats collect fireflies.

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Jaclyn's Inspired Instruction Store from teacherpayteachers.com, created and awesome activity called "Phonemic Awareness Activity: What's My Word". In this activity, the student has a sheet of images. The teacher must give a prompt such as "Put an X on the picture that starts with the sound /j/". The student will identify the image that has the /j/ sound at the beginning.

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Phonemic Awareness is an important part of any reading curriculum. How can you engage students in short, fun activities daily? Check out our What's My Word game and build in at least 10 minutes a day with activities like this. You'll see students' ability to decode improve if you are consistent!

While this activity uses a specific set of pictures, feel free to use different pictures based on students' grade and ability levels. Consider adding movement by having students stand or sit if they have a picture on their board that matches the sound you give them. You may also want to record yourself making the sounds and set this up in a center!

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Phonemic Awareness Activity: What's My Word?

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Phonemic Awareness is an important part of any reading curriculum. How can you engage students in short, fun activities daily? Check out our What's My Word game and build in at least 10 minutes a day with activities like this. You'll see students' ability to decode improve if you are consistent!

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The measured mom provided an awesome activity for all learners! The activity entails going along the board and identifying the beginning sound. There is a free PDF to different board games ready for download. For students learning English as a second language, they can use the pictures to help them identifying what it is. If they are able to say it in their primary language, that is fine as well! This activity helps children learn by looking at a visual. Especially for learners learning English as second language, this activity can help expand their vocabulary

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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.

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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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Letter Fridge is another game provided by ABCya.com. This game can be used for all learners. This is a great activity if you want to do phoneme isolation, phoneme substitution, and phoneme identification. You can ask students to look for a specific phoneme. This is extremely helpful to children because the gam states the name and sound for the letters.

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In this free educational game, students can practice alphabet, number, and punctuation recognition by clicking and dragging magnets to the refrigerator. When kids click on a letter magnet, they can hear the name of the letter and the sound it usually makes!

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Children with dyslexia may have more difficulty with phonemic awareness and phonological awareness. Repetition and engaging ways of learning would be good for learners with dyslexia. The following website, freekidsbook.org, has many rhyming books. Reading aloud to these learners can help with the area of phonemic awareness.

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SPIRE is a reading intervention curriculum that has structured lessons. It is repetitive making and interactive which helps students engage and practice known skills. The curriculum goes over phonograms cards, sight words, word building, phonological awareness activities decoding, and spelling. This intervention can be used for any learner. There is a placement test that can be conducted to determine what areas to focus on.

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SPIRE 4th Edition is an intensive reading intervention program for nonreaders and struggling readers - available in both print and digital formats.

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ABCya provided so many interactive and fun games! This is perfect for distance learning and can be used across any level. Children can have fun while learning or even reinforcing skills.

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ABCya! • ABCya! • Learning Games and Apps for Kids

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Educational games for grades PreK through 6 that will keep kids engaged and having fun. Topics include math, reading, typing, just-for-fun logic games… and more!

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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Intervention Binder

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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Intervention Binder

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Looking for a binder of activities? Clever Classroom created this amazing resource with  tons of pages! This resource contains word discrimination, rhyme alliteration, segmenting, blending, phoneme isolation, and phoneme manipulation activities. This would be great for children who like to do hands on activities and gives them a variety of activities to work on rather than being limited to one.

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2 - Phonological & Phonemic Awareness Activities and Interventions.pdf

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Looking for educational videos? PBS Learning Media has great videos on Phonemic Awareness. The awesome thing is you can incorporate this in your Google classroom and children can practice at home.

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Phonemic Awareness | Between the Lions Early Reading | PBS LearningMedia

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Here are segments selected from Between the Lions, the series that helps kids "Get Wild About Reading!" This special collection provides a set of early Reading/Language Arts resources, organized by early elementary and preschool literacy skills.