Phonemic Awareness Activity

This phonemic awareness activity includes 25 pages with 12 phonemic awareness activities on each page. I use these lists (one page per week, all year) as an all-class activity. Each page explicitly tells you, the teacher, what to say to the class, and what you should hear back from the whole class at the same time, if they are responding correctly. Practice skills included are: initial, medial, and final sounds, blending, and segmenting. If someone makes a mistake you can easily hear it and go over/explain the item to the class. I like to say my part, then snap two times for students to have think time. Then I place my hand palm up, as if to say GO AHEAD, in order to keep them in unison in their responses.

Here is an example of one page-

1. First sound: I say- say, sit, sun

They say- /s/

2. First sound segmentation: I say- seed

They say first sound, then the rest: /s/+eed

3. Final sound- I say- mat, bit, late

They say: /t/

4. Final sound segmentation: I say- pat

They say the word, with last sound separate: /pa/+/t/

5. Segmenting 3 sounds: I say- pig

They say /p/ /i/ /g/

6. Blending initial clusters: I say- /s/ top

They say: stop

7. Segmenting 4 sounds. I say- flick

They say: /f/ /l/ /i/ /k/

8. Delete part of initial blend: I say- spin without the S

They say: pin

9. Blend final clusters: I say- pass + /t/

They say: past

10. Delete part of final blend: I say- field without the D

They say: feel

11. Delete second sound in initial blend: I say- skip without the k

They say: sip

12. Delete second to last sound in final blend: I say- best without the S

They say: bet

Have FUN with phonemic awareness!