Phonemic Awareness Activities
Phonemic Awareness is a building block for a strong foundation in reading. It is the ability to “recognize that a spoken word consists of a sequence of individual sounds” (Ball and Blachman 1991), and the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words. Research has shown that phonemic awareness instruction is important because it increases reading and spelling achievement among preschoolers, primary-grade children, and students with learning disabilities (Ball and Blachman, 1991: Lundberg, Frost, and Petersen, 1988: Yopp, 1992).
Each activity below was created to help your child practice various skills which build phonemic awareness, in a FUN and engaging way. These activities and games are designed to optimize your involvement with your child as you help reinforce skills such as rhyming, sound manipulation, blending, and segmenting.
Activity: Rhyme Time Detectives
Your child will identify rhymes sounds and word families in familiar words as the activity “Rhyme Time Detectives” is played.
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Activity: Rhyme Time Memory
This version of the memory game will help your child learn to identify rhymes and rhyming sounds in words. “Rhyme Time Memory” uses rhyming cards which have highlighted word families, colorful pictures, and the matching word.
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Activity: Silly Songs
Helping children become aware of sounds is important as they are developing phonemic awareness. In this activity called “Silly Songs”, your child will substitute and identify beginning sounds in words.
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Download Silly Songs Printable PDF
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