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Beginning and Ending Sounds Clip Cards For Kindergarten

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Do you need to create a simple literacy center to help your kindergarten students practice beginning and ending sounds? Our FREE sounds clip cards are easy to prepare and kinders love them. They are a great addition to your literacy tool kit. Keep scrolling to get your FREE download.

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This is a set of 44 cards great for any reading station! This would be fabulous at the beginning of the year as a review of ending sounds and letter sounds. These are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students!

This game is played like memory. The students lay out all of the cards (face down), flip over 2, and hope they get a match! The match is the picture to the ending sound letter. For example, "p" matches with "pig". I have included cards with and without clue words.

I have also included a recording sheet!

Please see the preview for a better glimpse into this set!

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Ending Sounds Match Up Game, Literacy Centers, Final Letter Sounds

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This is a set of 44 cards great for any reading station! This would be fabulous at the beginning of the year as a review of ending sounds and letter sounds. These are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students!This game is played like memory. The students lay out all of the cards (face dow...

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Teaching phoneme substitution in Kindergarten is so fun. I love to see how excited kids get when they realize by changing 1 letter, they can make a whole new word. Here are a few activities I've used to work on sound substitution.

Phoneme Substitution Sound Spinners

I had some word family word wheels my mom had used back when she taught 1st grade. I liked the idea of them, but wanted to create a set that would work on substituting the beginning, middle, and ending sounds. This idea turned into this new bundle of sound spinners!

I made all of these sound spinners work the same way. Students simply spin the wheel to show a new sound. They read the word, then lift the flap to see if the picture matches the word they read. Next, students will spin a new sound to make a new word!

The beginning and ending sound spinners have 4 words per wheel, while the middle sound spinners have 3-4 words. I do include instructions if you buy these, so you can see how easy it is to make these spinner!

I did leave the bottom spinner black/white to make it printer friendly! Each set of sound spinners comes with a recording sheet for students to provide their answers. You can grab these sound spinners in my website shop or on TPT.!

CVC Flip Books

We also use our CVC flip books to practice switching sounds in words. I saw this idea on Pinterest and loved it! I divide a binder of notecards into 3 different sections. Next, add consonants to the 1st and last flap, and vowel sounds go in the middle. To make this more difficult, you could just do 2 flaps and do word families. Add blends/digraphs to the beginning or end for more added practice!

To use these, students flip over 3 letters and read the word. I then tell them to switch the beginning, middle, or ending sound and make me a whole new word. This shows them how to make new words, but it shows me who can read simple words. I can also see who knows what a beginning, middle, or ending sound is. Sometimes students have to find the word I tell them, put the word in a sentence, tell if it is real/nonsense, etc. These flip books can work on so many skills!

Incorporating Technology

You know how much I love to incorporate technology and add some FUN into learning at the same time! I just had to make a phoneme substitution game for Fluency & Fitness and Fluency Find It!

The Fluency and Fitness videos have students reading a word, then a letter disappears, and another letter "flies" in. Students then read the new word. Whenever they see the exercises, they have to do those until they see the next word.

My Fluency Find It games are a great way to work on skills, while building in some teamwork. I love watching the kids work together to say the answers and find the answer on the worksheet.

Lastly, another way we work on phoneme substitution is by using the game Lanolin's Greenhouse on the Professor Garfield website. This whole section called "Orson's Farm" works on a ton of phonics skills and the kids love it!

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Teaching phoneme substitution in Kindergarten is so fun. I love to see how excited kids get when they realize by changing 1 letter, they can make a whole new word. Here are a few activities I've used to work on sound substitution.

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Blending Card Bundle - Short and Long Vowel Blending Cards

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Included in this download is:
This is a growing bundle of BLENDING CARDS for short and long vowels.

This set INCLUDES: Short A, Short E, Short I, Short O, Short U, Long A, Long E, Long I, Long O, Long U

Each set will include EIGHT different styles.

- Word and Picture
- Word Only (no markings)
- Word (dots under)
- Word (line with arrow under)
- Word (dots and line with arrow under)
- Matching Pictures (to copy on back of above cards)
- Word with Picture (picture folded over so students can open up answer)
- Student Flashcards (great for centers, sending home to practice, putting on a binder right, these are word on one side - picture on the other)

Long Vowels: The cards that have dots or arrows as support are chunked to have each sound represented. For example, on the card with just the word JEEP it will appear as JEEP. But the cards with arrows and dots, JEEP will appear as J EE P to help the kids blend the sounds appropriately.

Picture cards come in color and black and white. They also come with a variation for different printer settings.

Word cards are the length of a paper horizontally and fit perfectly in most pocket chart slots.

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Blending Card Bundle - Short and Long Vowel Blending Cards - Simply Kinder

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Blending Card Bundle - Short and Long Vowel Blending Cards *************************************************************************************** Included in this download is: This is a growing bundle of BLENDING CARDS for short and long vowels. This set INCLUDES: Short A, Short E, Short I, Short O, Short U, Long A, Long E, Long I, Long O, Long U Each set will include EIGHT different styles.

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I Spy Beginning Sounds Activity - Free Printable for Speech and Apraxia

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Teach beginning sounds / phonemes with our I Spy Beginning Sounds free printable! Perfect for prek, preschool, and kindergarten.

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"Phonological awareness," "phonemic awareness," and "phonics," are literacy terms we often hear used simultaneously, and maybe even interchangeably! However, as we work with children, helping them to develop a strong foundation of literacy and language skills, we must realize the important distinction between these terms.

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Phonological Awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate parts of spoken language. Skills are at a listening/auditory and spoken/verbal, level - NO print - spoken words requiring ears only!

It is a broad term and comprised of a group of skills that progress developmentally, but of course, overlap as children mature. As phonological awareness skills develop, children will begin to attend to, discriminate, remember, and manipulate (segment/blend) words and sounds at these levels or chunks:

Sentence
Understanding that the sentence they hear, "Thecatisfat" is comprised of four separate words "The cat is fat".

Word

Understanding the words "cat" and "fat" rhyme.

Understanding two words become one in a compound word: cat + fish = catfish

Syllable
Understanding the word "cat" as one syllable.

Phonemic Awareness
Understanding and manipulating the three sounds in "cat" = /k/ /a/ /t/

Let's take a closer look at phonemic awareness. It is a specific skill under the broad category of phonological awareness. If we put phonological awareness skills on a continuum, phonemic awareness is the most sophisticated and last to develop.

The following is a list of specific phonemic awareness skills. Keep in mind, all of these are done at the auditory/spoken level, NO print:

Recognize words in a set begin with the same sound (cat, cake, kite all begin with the /k/ sound)

Isolate and say the first/last/middle sound/s in a word (cat begins with the /k/ sound and ends with the /t/ sound, etc.)

Blend separate sounds (phonemes) into words (/k/- /a/ - /t/ = cat)

Segment words into sounds (cat = /k/- /a/ - /t/)

Delete/manipulate sounds in spoken words (What is "cat" without the /k/? - "at"

Basically, phonemic awareness skills include learning how to break apart (segment) and combine (blend) the sounds in words. Phonemic awareness should begin in Pre-K with the focus on the simpler phonemic awareness skills of isolation and identifying beginning and ending sounds. Because phonemic awareness is a more advanced phonological awareness skill, development continues into kindergarten and early elementary.

Why are phonemic awareness skills so important?

Well, children who cannot hear and manipulate the phonemes of spoken words will have a very challenging time learning how to relate phonemes to letters when they see them in written words, Phonics. Therefore, Phonological Awareness skills are foundational for Phonics.

What is Phonics?

Phonemic awareness, however, is not phonics.

Phonics skill development focuses on helping children understand the relationship between sounds of written letters, letter combinations, and words. Phonics deals with written language, therefore we need to use our ears AND eyes, where as Phonological Awareness (and phonemic awareness) involves NO print, just listening and saying sounds and words. To keep this straight in my mind, I think about phonological awareness activities as those which can be completed with the eyes closed, while phonics activities require us to see the written letters and words, so, eyes need to be open.

Both phonemic awareness and phonics are interrelated, foundational skills and necessary for reading. However, it is important to understand a foundation of all phonological awareness skills should built before intense concentration is given to phonics.

The Benefits of Phonemic & Phonological Awareness

PreK is the time to begin to lay the foundation for strong reading skills, and it is important to begin by concentrating on phonological awareness skill development. In addition, if we do not help children gain the foundational understanding of sounds that phonemic awareness brings, phonics (assigning a letter a sound, spelling, and reading) will make little sense. And research supports this.

In summary, Phonemic Awareness is critical for reading. It primes readers for mapping speech to print, connecting sounds with written symbols, and also gives children a way to approach sounding out, blending sounds to make and read new words.

Phonological Awareness Activities & Strategies

In Pre-K, Phonological Awareness skills most certainly need to be taught explicitly, but fun extra practice can be woven in anytime.
Activity 1: Games to Play While Lined Up
Here are a few ideas for some simple games to play while children wait in line:

1. Sentence game: say a sentence, "The cat is fat". Tap the first 4 children on the head as you say each word of the sentence. Ask, "How many words?", four! Repeat the sentence, or say a different sentence, as you go down the line of children.

2. Rhyme game: Say a few words that rhyme, "cat, fat, bat". Prompt children to join in the game. You may need to prompt by saying some initial sounds: /p/ - at, /s/ - at, etc. Include silly words (/z/ - at) and blends (/th/ - at)!

3. My Turn/Your Turn syllable count game: (My Turn) Model clapping/stomping/tapping the syllables for objects you see in the classroom (Ceil-ing, floor, ta-ble, com-pu-ter). (Your Turn) Prompt children to imitate you. Ask after each word, "How many syllables?"

4. Repeat the beginning sound game: /c/ - /c/ - cat, /c/ - /c/ - cake, /c/ - /c/ - car. Prompt children to join in with other words.

The Get Set for School curriculum offers many activities that support early Language and Literacy skill development for children in your Early Childhood classrooms.

Here are some additional sample activities and products to explicitly instruct young learners in some key Phonological Awareness skills.
Activity 2: Discriminate rhymes
Each of the four Mat Man books features the beloved character, Mat Man. Rhyming verses in all the books help children discriminate and learn about rhymes.

Mat Man helps students learn about shapes, professions, rhymes, while expanding their imaginations, exploration, and community awareness.

Click here to see more sample pages from the Mat Man Book Series.
Activity 3: Discriminate between environmental sounds and speech sounds
Children learn important social, math, literacy & language concepts as they move and sing to upbeat songs on the Sing, Sound, and Count with Me Music Album

For example, the song "Syllable Sound Off" helps to develop children's understanding of syllables as they listen for and move to identify 2, 3 and 4 syllable words... all in one song!

Rhymes are taught in a fun playful way in the song "Rhyming Riddles". In fact, most songs on the music album include verses with rhyming words!
Activity 4: Identify Sounds and their sources
The Sound Around Box is a versatile classroom tool that will help you teach early language and literacy concepts in a fun and hands-on way. It provides the opportunity for many group activities which will help children develop important social skills as they engage in multisensory play with rhymes, syllables, beginning sounds, alphabet knowledge, letters, word parts, and test their memory skills!
Activity 5: Develop early language, literacy, motor, and social skills
Line It Up engages children in fun interactive activities that develop early language, literacy, motor, and social skills. The set includes a mountable magnetic display bar to hold the Story, Letter, and Coloring Cards.

The 26 Coloring Cards each have simple picture. The picture can be colored, but also used to facilitate a "Syllable Chant" activity. For example, on the "A" card: al-li-ga-tor.

The 26 Picture Cards can be used for phonemic awareness activities as children name each picture and identify those that begin with the target sound. For example:

Show picture side of Letter Card A. Name each picture.

Alligator begins with /ă/. Say it with me, /ă/, alligator.

Does violin begin with /ă/? No, violin begins with /v/.

Does astronaut begin with /ă/? Yes, /ă/, astronaut.

Continue with banana and apple.

Let children circle beginning /ă/ pictures.

All of the Get Set for School products support a variety of learning opportunities for your developing children. The products and activities highlighted shown here are just a snapshot of the many skills these products can facilitate.

To learn more about these and other Get Set for School activities and products, visit our website.

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5 Phonological & Phonemic Awareness Activities

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"Phonological awareness," "phonemic awareness," and "phonics," are literacy terms we often hear used simultaneously, and maybe even interchangeably! However, as we work with children, helping them to develop a strong foundation of literacy and language skills, we must realize the important distinction between these terms.

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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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Check out this blog post all about CVC words! Learn what they are, why they're important, and get ideas of ways to teach them in your classroom. Get some FREE activities to help you get started with CVC words today!

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What are nonsense words to you? Are they just an assessment you give 3 times are year or are they really important and meaningful in the continuum of learning to read. Many people have thoughts and opinions on this topic, but if you do a little research you will find that nonsense words have been around [...]

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

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Word Sounds App

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_Word Sounds _ Phonemes on the App Store

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Home Reading Helpers

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When talking about letter sounds, show your child what your mouth does to create the sound. Describe where your tongue is and how you're breathing.
"When I make the m sound, I press my lips together and make my voice hum like this "mmmmm". My tongue is relaxed."
Be a Word Detective

What sound does each letter make in this word on the cereal box? Research suggests that seeing print, saying the sounds, and hearing the sounds while pointing at the letter with a parent or teacher has the greatest impact on learning "phonemic awareness," or sounds.
Choose a letter sound, then have your child find things around your house that start with the same sound. This is great activity to do in the kitchen while making dinner. "Can you find something in our house that starts with the letter "s" ssssss sound? Stairs, sofa, sandwich."
Sound Hunters
Have your child give a rhyme for a word you tell them. It can be a made up word, too. " What rhymes with "bindergarten"?
Ridiculous Rhymes

Be Silly

Make up your own rhymes, songs, or silly stories to focus on a particular sound. " Big Billy blows beautiful bubbles!"
When you're reading together with your child, pick a word from the book and put emphasis on the first sound. Pick another word and compare them. "Aaaaaaalligator and eeeeeeeelephant. Can you hear what letter aaaaaligator starts with? Is it the same as eeeeelephant? What letter does elephant start with?"
What's the Sound?
Before kids are ready to read words, they need to be able to separate the sounds they hear in words. Tell them a whole word, such as "cat," and they will separate the sounds as they touch their head /c/, then shoulders /a/, then knees /t/ (and toes for four sounds if they can handle it). At the end, they'll say the whole word, "cat", as they stand back up. If it's too hard for them, slow down saying the word and stretch out each sound so they can better hear the individual sounds.
Head Shoulder Knees and Toes

Fingers Up!

Take turns saying a word and the other person has to put up their fingers to match the number of sounds. For "cat," they'd hold up their pointer finger for "c", middle finger for "a" and ring finger for "t".

Show Me

Using Cheerios, rocks or beads, say a word and have your child show you how many sounds the word makes. For example, "cap" = c+a+p = three sounds, so they'd place three objects in a row. Then have them tap each object as they say the sound. Remember, your child is just showing you the sounds they hear. So the word "take" would be = t-a-k (silent e) = only three sounds.

Tell Me the Members of the Word Family

Word families are words that rhyme. Tell your child the "mom's" name is "bat" and ask them to tell you all the "kids'" names, like cat, fat, sat, rat, pat, mat, at, and hat. This will help children hear patterns in words.

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Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness | Knowing Sounds in Kindergarten

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When talking about letter sounds, show your child what your mouth does to create the sound. Describe where your tongue is and how you're breathing. "When I make the m sound, I press my lips together and make my voice hum like this "mmmmm". My tongue is relaxed."