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ELA and Phonemic Awareness

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.1.a
Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2.c
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3.d
Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

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English Language Arts Standards " Reading: Foundational Skills " Grade 1

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.1.a Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2.c Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3.d Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

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How many times have you heard teachers talking about phonics and speech-language pathologists talking about phonemes - and both groups talking about phonological awareness? This has happened so frequently that sometimes they get muddied up in my brain. Here are the definitions and differences between the terms:

1.Phonological Awareness refers to the development of different phonological components of spoken language (Lane & Pullen, 2004, p. 6). Students who have strong phonological awareness recognize when words rhyme. They notice syllable and word patterns. Having phonological awareness skills is directly related to reading ability. The fact that poor readers have weak phonological awareness skills doesn't surprise me.

Phonological awareness skills include:

2. Phonemic Awareness refers to the knowledge about a phoneme and an individual's ability to detect, blend, segment, and manipulate individual sounds in words. As speech-language pathologists, we know that a phoneme is just one sound. There are 41 phonemes in English that we use to combine into syllables and words when we speak. While a phoneme is just one sound and is the smallest level of speech production, according to reading experts it is actually the highest level of phonological abilities. They says that it develops after children learn to manipulate words and syllables. Children who lack phonemic awareness will have trouble learning phonics and decoding, especially when they need to sound out and blend letters to form new words.

Phonemic awareness skills include:

Phoneme blending (putting sounds together to make a spoken word)

Phoneme segmentation (when given a spoken word, a student can segment it into individual phonemes)

Phoneme manipulation (manipulating a phoneme to make a new word in a word family)

3. Phonics refers to the teaching of letter-sound associations and the letter patterns used to spell words (Snow, Burns, and Griffin, 1998 p.51). Phonics instruction assumes that the student has phonemic awareness. It also assumes that the student has the alphabetic principle, which refers to understand that there are consistent relationships between letter symbols and letter sounds.

All of these skills are built on a strong foundation of oral language. Wait a second, oral language is my jam as an SLP! That's our core proficiency in our jobs as speech-language pathologists. And we also touch on phonological awareness and phonemic awareness too. I don't do a lot of phonics

So if you ever have a teacher or principal ask you a question about what you do, tell them that you build your students oral language skills so that all of their phonological awareness, phoneme awareness, and phonics skills have a place to put down roots and grow.

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The Difference Between Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics - Speech is Beautiful

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How many times have you heard teachers talking about phonics and speech-language pathologists talking about phonemes - and both groups talking about phonological awareness? This has happened so frequently that sometimes they get muddied up in my brain. Here are the definitions and differences between the terms: 1.Phonological Awareness refers to the development of different [...]

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What Is Phonemic Awareness?

Phonological awareness is an umbrella term that includes four developmental levels:

Word awareness

Syllable awareness

Onset-rime awareness

Phonemic awareness

Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken language words can be broken into individual phonemes-the smallest unit of spoken language.

Phonemic awareness is not the same as phonics-phonemic awareness focuses on the individual sounds in spoken language. As students begin to transition to phonics, they learn the relationship between a phoneme (sound) and grapheme (the letter(s) that represent the sound) in written language.

To develop phonological awareness, kindergarten and first grade students must demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

​ Read Naturally programs that develop phonemic awareness

Why Phonemic Awareness Is Important

First of all, phonemic awareness performance is a strong predictor of long-term reading and spelling success (Put Reading First, 1998). Students with strong phonological awareness are likely to become good readers, but students with weak phonological skills will likely become poor readers (Blachman, 2000). It is estimated that the vast majority-more than 90 percent-of students with significant reading problems have a core deficit in their ability to process phonological information (Blachman, 1995).

In fact, phonemic awareness performance can predict literacy performance more accurately than variables such as intelligence, vocabulary knowledge, and socioeconomic status (Gillon, 2004). The good news is that phonological awareness is one of the few factors that teachers are able to influence significantly through instruction-unlike intelligence, vocabulary, and socioeconomic status (Lane and Pullen, 2004).

Many students (75%) enter kindergarten with proficient phonemic awareness skills. The 25% of students who have not mastered these skills are from all socio-economic backgrounds and need explicit instruction in phonemic awareness. When instruction is engaging and developmentally appropriate, researchers recommend that all kindergarten students receive phonemic awareness instruction (Adams, 1990).

Phonological Awareness Skills

The following table shows how the specific phonological awareness standards fall into the four developmental levels: word, syllable, onset-rime, and phoneme. The table shows the specific skills (standards) within each level and provides an example for each skill.

Less Complex

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More Complex

Word Awareness

Syllable Awareness

Onset-Rime Awareness

Phoneme Awareness

Sentence Segmentation
Tap one time for every word you hear in the sentence:

Rhyme Recognition
Do these two words rhyme: ham, jam? (yes)

Isolation
What is the first sound in fan? (/f/)
What is the last sound in fan? (/n/)
What is the middle sound in fan? (/a/)

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Rhyme Generation
Tell me a word that rhymes with nut. (cut)

Identification
Which word has the same first sound as car: fan, corn, or map? (corn)

Categorization
Which word does not belong: mat, sun, cat, fat? (sun)

Categorization
Which word does not belong? bus, ball, house? (house)

Blending
Listen as I say two small words: rain ... bow.
Put the two words together to make a bigger word. (rainbow)

Blending
Put these word parts together to make a whole word: rock*et. (rocket)

Blending
What word am I saying? /b/ ... /ig/? (big)

*Blending
What word am I saying
/b/ /ĭ/ /g/? (big)

Segmentation
Clap the word parts in rainbow. (rain*bow)
How many times did you clap? (two)

Segmentation
Clap the word parts in rocket. (roc*ket)

Segmentation
Say big in two parts.

(/b/ ... /ig/)

*Segmentation
How many sounds in big? (three)
Say the sounds in big.
(/b/ /ĭ/ /g/)

Deletion
Say mat.
Now say mat without the /m/. (at)

Substitution
The word is mug.
Change /m/ to /r/.
What is the new word? (rug)

*Integrated instruction in phoneme segmenting and blending provides the greatest benefit to reading acquisition (Snider, 1995).

Instruction should be systematic. Notice the arrow across the top. The levels become more complex as students progress from the word level to syllables, to onset and rime, and then to phonemes.

Notice the arrow along the left-hand side. Students progress down each level-learning increasingly more complex skills within a level.

For example, look at the Phoneme Awareness column. Students learn to isolate, identify, and categorize phonemes first. Then students are taught to blend phonemes to make a word before they are taught to segment a word into phonemes-which is typically more difficult. The most challenging phonological awareness skills are at the bottom: deleting, adding, and substituting phonemes.

Blending phonemes into words and segmenting words into phonemes contribute directly to learning to read and spell well. In fact, these two phonemic awareness skills contribute more to learning to read and spell well than any of the other activities under the phonological awareness umbrella (National Reading Panel, 2000; Snider, 1995).

So, as we plan phonological awareness instruction, our goal is to systematically move students as quickly as possible toward blending and segmenting at the phoneme level.

Consonant Phonemes

There are two types of consonant phonemes:

Continuous sounds*

A sound that can be pronounced for several seconds without any distortion.

/f/ * /l/ * /m/ * /n/ * /r/ * /s/ * /v/ * /w/ */y/ * /z/ * /a/ * /e/ * /i/ * /o/ * /u/

Stop sounds

A sound that can be pronounced for only an instant. Avoid adding /uh/.

/b/ * /d/ * /g/ * /h/ * /j/ * /k/ * /p/ * /t/

*Blending words with continuous sounds is easier than blending words with stop sounds.

The continuous sounds can be pronounced for several seconds without distortion. The stop sounds can be pronounced only for an instant. It is important to avoid adding /uh/ to a stop sound as it is pronounced-which confuses students. As new phonological awareness skills are introduced, using continuous sounds may be easier at first.

Read Naturally Programs That Develop Phonemic Awareness

Funēmics: A Phonemic Awareness Program for Small Groups

Read Naturally's Funēmics is a systematic, program for pre-readers or struggling beginning readers that teaches all of the phonological awareness standards. Each lesson builds on skills taught in previous lessons, adding just a few elements at a time. With minimal preparation, teachers or aides present scripted instruction to small groups of students, using an interactive display (with brightly illustrated pages and interactive widgets) viewed on a tablet or whiteboard. Fun ēmics is entirely pre-grapheme.

Learn more about how Fun ēmics teaches phonological awareness skills:

Read Naturally® GATE+: A Systematic, Direct-Instruction Phonics Program for Beginning Readers

Teach phonemic awareness, phonics, and other foundational reading skills to beginning readers with Read Naturally GATE+'s explicit reading instruction. This motivating program provides scripted, interactive phonemic awareness and phonics exercises based on scientific research. Students master high-frequency words and decoding skills as they improve their fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

Other Programs That Support Phonemic Awareness

The following programs do not focus on phonemic awareness but include phonemic awareness activities as part of a broader scope of instruction:

Signs for SoundsTM
Teacher-led, small-group instruction for teaching regular phonetic spelling patterns and high-frequency words through spelling. Focuses on spelling and phonics with additional support for phonemic awareness.
Learn more about Signs for Sounds

Bibliography

Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to read: Thinking and learning about print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Blachman, B. A. (2000). Phonological awareness. In M. L. Kamil, P. B. Rosenthal, P. D. Pearson, and R. Barr (eds.), Handbook of reading research, 3, pp. 483-502. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Blachman, B. A. (1995). Identifying the core linguistic deficits and the critical conditions for early intervention with children with reading disabilities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Learning Disabilities Association, Orlando, FL, March 1995.

Gillon, G. T. (2004). Phonological awareness: From research to practice. New York: The Guilford Press.

Lane, H. B., and P. C. Pullen. (2004). A sound beginning: Phonological awareness assessment and instruction. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

National Institute for Literacy. (1998). Put reading first. <http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/PRFbooklet.pdf>

National Reading Panel. (2000). Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction. Washington, DC: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Snider, V. A. (1995). A primer on phonemic awareness: What it is, why it's important, and how to teach it. School Psychology Review, 24(3), pp. 443-456.

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Open House Video #1 - Phonemic Awareness

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These teacher task cards are the perfect phonemic awareness activities, right at your fingertips whenever you need them! There are cards for every skill and they are also differentiated for different levels!
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Phonemic awareness activities for kindergarten, first grade, and intervention! These teacher task cards will help you make the most of every classroom moment. Use them during small groups, whole group, one-on-one, in tutoring, or during class transitions to make sure that your students are building phonemic awareness every day!

Phonemic Awareness Teacher Task Cards

WHY PHONEMIC AWARENESS?

I remember my "Teaching Reading" professor in graduate school. She was passionate about phonemic awareness, and there were two things she drilled into our heads.

1. Phonemic awareness can be done in the dark.

2. Phonemic awareness is one of the best predictors of learning to read. (This makes it SUPER important!)

I'm also pretty sure she asked us to name these two facts at the beginning, middle, and end of every class session. In fact, she even made us order copies of reports from the National Reading Panel for "pleasure reading." But guess what? It's now seven years later, and I haven't forgotten about the importance of phonemic awareness.

As I teach reading intervention, I hear her voice in my head. (Note: I didn't say that I hear random voices in my head; I just remember her. ;) ) I'm constantly reminded of one thing: I need to give my students ample opportunities to learn and practice phonemic awareness skills on a daily basis. With only 20-30 minutes per session, I have to make the most of every minute. I could remember all of the skills in my head and keep track of who has already learned what, or I could create a program to keep me on track. Thus, Phonemic Awareness Teacher Task Cards were born!

These task cards are for the teacher only. Why? Because phonemic awareness can be done in the dark! Letters are not required in building phonemic awareness skills. (Save the letters for phonics.) Your students build phonemic awareness skills by listening and speaking. So for once, don't even worry about making copies for your students. These cards are just for you!

THE PHONEMIC AWARENESS ACTIVITIES

I took all of the phonemic awareness skills and created activities for them. They range from begining to advanced so that they can be used with kindergarteners, first graders, second graders, and any students struggling to read and write (spell).

Because phonemic awareness instruction should be systematic and explicit, I "scripted" each skill introduction and each set of student directions. That's right. All you have to do is read it aloud to your students! You'll also model a "sample" activity so that your students know just what to do (also scripted).

Ready for more? Turn the page (or card). You have multiple pages with 5-20 ways to practice that skill!

Skills range from "What's the first sound you hear in ___?" to phoneme deletion and manipulation. Don't worry. It's scaffolded all throughout so that your students will work up to the hard stuff!

SETTING IT UP - ONE AND DONE

Remember how only the teacher needs a set of these task cards? The setup is quick- do it once, and use it for years! If you have a paraprofessional, assistant, or parent volunteers, you can make them each a set too. They can also practice in small groups or one-on-one. I used colored cardstock and binder rings to keep all my task cards together. (Let's be real; it's also to make them pretty. 😉 ). [Note: These are affiliate links for your convenience.] I had many of you ask if I put the colored paper in a specific order, and the answer is no. I just randomly threw it in my printer. Since they print four to a page, the same skills will be the same color.

SKILL LEVELS

Last week, I decided to put all of the skills on one giant binder ring and use sticky tabs to track which groups are on which skills. However, if you want to divide the task cards by level, you can use the table of contents below to do so! [Note: This table of contents is clickable in the PDF, but it won't be here.]

Beginner: Beginning Sound Discrimination through Alliterations

Intermediate: Onset and Rime through Segmenting Phonemes

Advanced: Deleting With Compound Words through Ending Phoneme Substitution

I hope these phonemic awareness teacher task cards make as much of a difference in your classroom has they have in ours! May you hear voices in your head reminding you how important phonemic awareness is to your students. And also always remember that it can be done in the dark. 😉

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Phonics games for first grade offer an incredible fusion of education and entertainment. They are affordable, engaging, and significantly effective in teaching crucial reading skills. If you are looking to give your child a well-rounded reading education, these games should definitely be in your toolkit.

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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)

(free)

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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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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ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more! For kids ages 2 to 8.

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Phonemic Awareness | Between the Lions Early Reading | PBS LearningMedia

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Blachman, B. A., Ball, E. W., Black, R., & Tangel, D. M. (2000). Road to the code: A phonological awareness program for young children. Baltimore: Brookes.

Clay, M. (1993). Reading Recovery: A Guidebook for Teachers in Training. NH: Heinemann.

Elkonin, D. (1971). "Development of Speech". In A.V. Zaporozhets and D. B. Elkonin (Eds.). The Psychology of Preschool Children. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.

Ellis, E. (1997). How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (2000). Report of the National Reading Panel. Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction (NIH Publication No. 00-4769). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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Elkonin boxes build phonological awareness skills by segmenting words into individual sounds, or phonemes. To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme. In some cases different colored tokens may be used for consonants and vowels or just for each phoneme in the word.

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Are you looking for printable phonemic awareness activities? These phonemic awareness worksheets are just for you! They are no prep, cut and paste PICTURE-BASED activities. Please note that there are no letters/words on the page in reference to each skill. The only words on the page are for title, name, and directions. This is to ensure that students are practicing HEARING sounds and words (phonemic awareness) rather than letter-sound correlation (phonics).

These interactive phonemic awareness activities are perfect for guided reading, small groups, intervention, tutoring, partner work, EL/ELL students, and even as assessments!

The following skills are covered in this resource:
* Beginning Sound Sorts
* Rhyming
* Compound words
* Syllable Sorts
* Counting Sounds in Words Sorts
* Ending Sounds Sorts
* Medial Sound Sorts

Picture keys are included for ALL activities.

Looking for more? You can find 65+ Phonemic Awareness Worksheets here!

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Are you looking for printable phonemic awareness activities? These phonemic awareness worksheets are just for you! They are no prep, cut and paste PICTURE-BASED activities. Please note that there are no letters/words on the page in reference to each skill. The only words on the page are for title, n...

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This blog post is about teaching primary learners phonemic awareness using sorting worksheets. Phonemic Awareness is an important foundational skill that is essential in learning how to read.

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear and change individual sounds in spoken words. Some examples include sound matching, sound isolation and sound segmenting. There are very easy games you can play to teach students phonemic awareness! Some examples are "thumbs up, thumbs down." In this game, you pick a sound like /m/ or /r/ and students put their thumbs up or down if the word starts with that letter. You can make a cube with certain letters on it. Students take turn tossing the cube and saying a word that has that sound! It is very easy to implement phonemic awareness activities in your small group instruction.

Here are some additional activities that promote phonemic awareness:

1. Reading and reciting nursery rhymes

2. Singing songs that play with sounds (Like the Name Game)

3. Sorting worksheets that has pictures with no print

These FREE beginning sounds worksheets are designed to help your students develop their phonemic awareness skills. Students sort by the beginning sound and not the beginning sound. So they sort /a/ and not /a/ using the pictures.

They practice rainbow tracing the targeted letter too! Each letter shows the correct formation to make the letter. To challenge students that are ready, students draw a picture of a person, thing, place or object that matches the beginning sound.

No Prep Beginning Sounds Sort Worksheets

This is a perfect back to school activity for several reasons. Students practice phonemic awareness, fine motor skills of cutting and coloring, writing their name, practice sorting, letter writing and skills that they need to begin reading text.

When you can use it?

These sorting worksheets can be used during literacy centers or guided reading. You can even laminate these worksheets for repeated practice! It's really up to you how you can use these FREE worksheets in your classroom!

Guided Reading - Word Work

Literacy Centers

Assessments

Homework

If you need more professional development on how to implement phonemic awareness activities in your instruction, I recommend that you read Debbie Diller Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All. "

I use this book as a reference when I want to try new strategies for teaching phonemic awareness. I strongly recommend this book.

*I do not get paid, received or will receive any monetary benefit to recommending or linking to this textbook.

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What are some other phonemic awareness activities you use in the classroom? Please sure your thoughts in the comments below!

Happy Teaching!

Tee

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FREE Phonemic Awareness Sorting Worksheets

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This blog post is about teaching primary learners phonemic awareness using sorting worksheets. Phonemic Awareness is an important foundational skill that is essential in learning how to read. What is Phonemic Awareness? Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear and change individual sounds in spoken words.