A. Exhibit phonological awareness

1. participate in oral language activities
2. segment sentences into words
3. recognize, identify, and supply rhyming words
4. segment and count syllables in spoken words
5. hear similarities and differences in beginning and ending sounds
6. segment onsets and rimes
7. blend onsets and rimes

Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing

They ‘read’ their story to others, transcribe their oral story into writing, and create an accordian book with drawings on the front side and writing on the back. Young children develop and improve reading skills by reading their own words.

Storytelling Lesson Plans and Activities

This collection of story-related activities, projects and games-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be used by educators in a school setting to encourage speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Rhyming Words Activities
Children identify words that rhyme in a series of activities. For example, "Put your thumbs up if these two words rhyme--pail-tail or cow-pig?" or "Finish this rhyme, red, bed, blue, ______."

Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction

Students practice matching rhyming words using picture cards and apply phonological awareness, hearing rhyme, to analogy-based phonics (i.e., an ability to decode unknown words by identifying words with similar visual structure). Students use online resources to increase phonological awareness through rhyme.
 

Generating Rhymes: Developing Phonemic Awareness

This lesson supports the goal of helping young students to recognize and generate rhymes through songs, poems, and games. Students will create rhyming lyrics to known songs, give rhyming words for a given keyword in a poem, and interact with their peers to find rhyming pairs.

Teaching Phonemic Segmentation
Children learn to count the sounds in a word. For example, "Can you count the syllables or the word parts in football?"
 

Introducing the -At Family
Students will learn to hear, read, and write members of the-at family.
 

Rhyming Words
Vocabulary review: go through the nursery rhymes and target words the children may have difficulty understanding.

Phoneme Isolation: Building Phonemic Awareness
In this lesson, students engage in games and chants to identify beginning and ending phonemes. Students will match objects with the same beginning or ending sound, identify whether a given sound occurs at the beginning or ending of a word, and connect phonemes with graphemes.
 

What's in a Name?  Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word
This lesson uses the students' name as a starting place for reading and writing

Sheep in a Jeep Activities                                                                                                     
This book really helping the idea of rhyming words "sink in" for kids who were having trouble with the concept.

The Magic Hat
This activity offers the children an opportunity to practice sound substitution and sound blending both orally and with concrete materials.

Play With Words - Rhyme and Verse
In this lesson, students will use their senses to experience poetry. Students will listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes.

A Hunting We Will Go
The activity begins with the singing of the song "A-Hunting We Will Go" with its original verses and several new verses that support rhyming concepts. Students brainstorm pairs of rhyming words and create their own verses for the song. The activity culminates with the practice of rhyming skills using an online interactive tool.

Using Songwriting to Build Awareness of Beginning Letter Sounds

This lesson can be adapted for kindergarten, first, or second graders. Students begin by singing a song to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Kindergartners can identify and learn letter names and beginning consonant sounds. First graders will enjoy extending the activity by creating new verses to the song as a class, thus building phonemic awareness and vocabulary. Second graders will enjoy creating their very own song verses, which integrates the activity of songwriting to support many aspects of language development. The activity culminates by illustrating the song verses.

Phonemic Awareness: Watch & Learn  The following are four short video clips that offer you the chance to watch and learn effective phonemic awareness activities. The video clips are from Reading Rockets' PBS television series Launching Young Readers.

ABC Match - Click on cards to find the picture and beginning sound it matches.

Rebus Rhymes: Designed for children who are learning how to read. Preschoolers and kindergartners enjoy picking out the words they can read in their favorite nursery rhymes.

Dr. Seuss:  Many multidisciplinary activities used for these delightful stories.

An online game for manipulating sounds and rhyming words  

A website for filling in the missing rhyming words

Words and Pictures: Develop auditory discrimination - similarities and differences of sound

Morgan Dynamic Phonics -Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness: Prereading Activities for Students that are Struggling. With a student who is having great problems even learning the first letters and sounds and blending them together or having lots of trouble even progressing past the first couple of lessons, it is the author's advice to put away the reading books and do phonological awareness training techniques orally.

Speech Sounds: Suggested Activities

Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. There are many activities that you can do with your students to help them increase their knowledge of speech sounds and their relationship to letters.

Speech Sounds: Watch & Learn.

The following are four short video clips that offer you the chance to watch and learn effective speech sound activities. The video clips are from Reading Rockets' PBS television series Launching Young Readers.

Phonological Awareness

A student’s level of phonological awareness at the end of kindergarten is one of the strongest predictors of future reading success, in grade one and beyond. This book chapter explains phonological awareness and gives activities.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Identify and restate format elements of book (i.e. front cover, title, back cover).
E/B: Identify and restate symbols and signs within classroom and community environment; D: Identify and restate symbols and signs within classroom and community environment; E: Describe symbols and signs within classroom and community environment.
E/B: Identify and express beginning sounds of words.
E/B: Recognize some simple sight words; D: Recognize and produce some simple sight words; E: Recognize and produce various sight words.
E/B: Listen and repeat rhyming patterns in language; D: Listen and produce rhyming patterns in language.
E/B: Distinguish between capital and lowercase letters.
E/B: Follow sequence of words from left to right.
E/B: Identify first sound within a spoken word; D: Identify first and last sounds within a spoken word.
E/B: Read some high-frequency words, including own name; D: Sort some high-frequency words by category; E: Sort and classify most high-frequency words by category.
D: Blend two to four phonemes into recognizable words.
D: Recognize and identify capital and lowercase letters.
D: Distinguish between individual sounds and syllables; E: Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables.
D: Begin to correct self when reading simple words or sentences aloud; E: Correct self when reading simple words and sentences aloud.
E: Use more complex words and sentences to communicate needs and express ideas in a wider variety of social and academic settings.

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