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This website is perfect for finding the right app for students. These games can be played individually or with partners. The apps would also be beneficial for parents to use at home. If students are going to be on screens, might as well throw some educational ones into their screen time!

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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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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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Dr. Seuss books are great to teach students how to rhyme. These books are classics and known world wide. The popularity of the books have been made into movies as well, so after reading the books, the class can have a movie day!

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Search and browse all of the books Dr. Seuss has written and illustrated! Read all about a book, including links to where you can buy or download it.

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I decided to provide resources for phonemic awareness because this is where we first begin to learn how to read. Once students understand how the letters make sounds, and how certain combinations of letters together create other sounds, the foundation of reading sight words can be formed. Phonemic awareness is a great place to start, and it is always a good lesson to review through elementary school.

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This websites includes activities to do with pre-kindergarteners through second grade. What I love about this website is the lists of books she provides for teachers and parents. She breaks down book into categories so teachers and parents can focus on certain sounds only.

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Do you have kindergarteners at the beginning of their learning to read journey? Having a strong sense of phonemic awareness, which is a part of phonological awareness, is a big stepping stone on this path to reading. These phonemic awareness activities for kindergarten will help young children develop this crucial skill.

Phonemic awareness which falls under the umbrella of phonological awareness is all done orally. There is no visual representation of the letters to match the sound work. If we did that, then it would be considered phonics work. However, there are some great benefits for attaching that phonics work to phonemic awareness. I'll talk more about that at the end of this post.

Let's start with the pure phonemic awareness work.

Phonemic Awareness Activities for Kindergarten

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Phoneme Isolation

Phonemic awareness at the kindergarten level usually involves isolating and identifying sounds at the beginning, middle (begin to isolate), and ends of short words of three sounds.

Consonant sounds are much easier to isolate and identify than vowel sounds. And, beginning sounds are easier than ending sounds.

Here are some great ways to work on identifying letters sounds in a word. Most of these activities can be adapted to work on beginning, medial, or ending sounds.
Beginning Sounds Mail Sort Beginning Sounds Leaf Letter Activity There's a Shark in the Sea Beginning Sounds Lego Game Ice Melt and Break Letter Sound Tic Tac Toe Sound Mazes
Segmenting and Blending
Blending and segmenting sounds in three sound words are also goals we have for kindergarten students.
Elkonin or sound boxes are an easy and fun way to practice segmenting. These are some favorite sound box resources.
Carrot Sound Boxes Spider Web Segmenting Snowflake Mat
Individual Word Boxes and these 102 Word Boxes

Also, try this Rainforest Segmenting Slider for more segmenting practice.

For blending, we like to use a toy car or truck. The child runs the vehicle on a road as he or she blends the sounds together.

Phoneme Deleting and Substitution

Kindergarteners also start to work on removing a beginning sound and adding a new beginning sound to create a new word. This can also be done with ending sounds.

The best way to work on deleting is to say a word and then ask the child to remove the beginning or ending sound.
Take away the /b/. What is left? (ag)
To work on substitution, ask the child to remove a particular sound and replace it with a different sound.
take away the /b/.
Add a /t/to ag, what do you have? (tag)

Building Phonemic Awareness Through Song

One of the most successful ways to build phonemic awareness is through song. 35 Circle Time Songs and Chants to Build Literacy Skills is full of songs and chants to build phonemic and phonological awareness.-> CHECK OUT 35 CIRCLE TIME SONGS AND CHANTS

Tying the Phonemic Awareness with Phonics

In Making Sense of Phonics by the Dukes, they talk about the benefit of including the visual letters component when working letters sounds. It helps bridge the visual with the auditory. I don't start with isolating, blending, etc. with the visual piece, but I do move into the visual connection piece pretty quickly so that kids can start to connect the dots.

Here are some activities to work on letter sounds and also add that visual component.
Sound Pancakes Pete the Cat Sound Bingo Fossil Sound Matching
Enjoy this building block step with your emerging readers.
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Fun and Playful Phonemic Awareness Activities for Kindergarten

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Do you have kindergarteners at the beginning of their learning to read journey? Having a strong sense of phonemic awareness, which is a part of phonological awareness, is a big stepping stone on this path to reading. These phonemic awareness activities for kindergarten will help young children develop this crucial skill.

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I had to include this website, provided by the course, because of how useful it is! I love how it breaks apart into manageable sections and provides resources for teachers, students, and parents.

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Basics: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

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Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of individual speech sounds, or phonemes. A child's skill in phonological and phonemic awareness is a good predictor of later reading success or difficulty.

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This website is another membership program, but you can print out several pages before it asks for a membership account. I like this because it can be specific in what I am looking for and the activities are fun!

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This is great for small groups to practice together. It is easy to add sight words, letters, and sounds of letters together.

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This websites breaks down standards by grades for reading and math, and creates fun games for kids. This website does require a membership program.

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I have used this program in the past. This program is great for students who struggle with letter recognition. They have little sayings to help distinguish the letters.

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This website is perfect! It is simple and fun for the teacher and student to use. I would use this for my classroom to do quick warm ups, full lesson plans and to provide extra support for students who need it.

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Browse phonemic awareness resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.

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Even though all these resources are great to use and plan for, sometimes I use what I have around me to teach a quick lesson. For example, I have a sixth grade student who uses "L" in place for "th" so I improvised a lesson using dice and a white board and we played a game. We can have any material we could want for by having access to the internet, but sometimes, ourselves are going to be the best resource we can ever ask for.

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This is another membership website, but the material and content is great! I have had friends use this for their kids and they are having fun while learning! They are not even pre-school age kids yet, and they can already read sight words, and spell their name. This program is a win for sure for parents and teachers!

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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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I have used this screening before and it really helped my students and myself. This showed where their skills were at and how I could better fill in the gaps of their learning.

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I LOVE Kahoot and so do my my students. This interactive game gets the whole class playing! This site is nice because you can either play on existing games, or you can customize for your own classroom. It is a great resource to use for any subject.

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