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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Vowel Picture Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Sound sorting can be a fun way to get little ones phonologically prepared for a life of reading. In this activity, learners sort picture cards based on the long or short vowel sound they make when said aloud.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Move and Tell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Build phonological awareness with this fun game focused on isolating and identifying medial phonemes. This game board contains an image on each square; when the child lands on a square, they must say the medial sound of the word they...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Say and Slide Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Develop phonological awareness using this partner activity, where scholars segment words into phonemes. Using Elkonin Box picture cards, pairs practice orally segmenting sounds and physically representing the phonemes using counters....
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Literacy Connects

Activities to Build Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds and...
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University of Florida

Phonological Awareness: A Sound Beginning

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Choose from a variety of phonological activities to complement a reading lesson. The guide goes through the basic components of good phonics instruction focusing on sound types, levels of phonological awareness, assessment methods, and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Closed Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Build phonological awareness with an activity that challenges learners to sort picture cards based on the number of phonemes each has.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Closed Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A rhyming activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards according to their rhyme. Four picture cards line up across the top of a pocket chart. Learners take turns choosing from a face-down stack of picture cards and sort them...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Train

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Make a phonics train filled with matching initial phonemes. Early readers say the name of the objects on each of their cards, identify the initial letter sounds or phonemes, then paste them on a train. They make three trains, which means...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Feed the Animals

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards based on the number of syllables they count as they say the item's name on each card. Depending on how many syllables they count, they place the card in the corresponding box...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Syllable Say

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Counting syllables can be fun when it's done with a friend. In pairs, learners say words as their partner counts the syllables they hear.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Pack-a-Backpack

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sort words based on their initial phoneme or sound. Learners are given two backpacks, each with a picture card; they search and match picture cards with the same initial sound as the ones on each backpack.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Phoneme Go Fish

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Go fishing for initial sounds with this engaging phoneme game! Similar to the card game Go Fish, pairs use picture cards and try to match initial sounds. They set aside any pictures that are a match and ask their partner for specific...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, The Sound Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pre-readers get a better understanding of phoneme segmenting and counting by playing a board game. They pick an image card from the stack, say the name of the object, break the word down into segments, then move their piece that number...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Quick Pick

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What does it begin with? In this engaging phonics game, small groups study onset and rime using picture cards. Groups take turns as one player draws three cards from an overturned pile, placing them face-up on the table. They silently...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyming Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars practice their rhyming skills with a game. Players roll dice to move along the board game, stopping to rhyme words and find a match.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Rime House

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Are you covering onset and rime with budding readers? Here, learners examine six "rime house" work boards, each with an image at the top. Working with a partner, they segment each top image's onset and rime. Then, they pick cards and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Maker - Sound Smacker

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars sort words based on their initial phonemes. They choose cards, say their names, and match the initial phoneme to the one posted on one of the sorting bins. If the initial sound matches, they put the card in the sound maker bin,...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Photos

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This great activity incorporates counting, phoneme segmenting, and class photos. In pairs, learners take turns saying, counting, and checking the number of phoneme segments found in their classmates' names. They count the phonemes and...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Hopscotch

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Your class will love playing phoneme hopscotch! Scholars choose a card, say the name of the object on the card, break the word into phonemes, count the phonemes, then hop that many spaces on the hopscotch mat. Super fun!
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Clapping Names

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars practice identifying and counting syllables. Images of classmates are cut out and placed on a chart. Learners clap and count the syllables in each child's name. They finish by writing the number of syllables under the...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Sound Detective

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Play letter sound detective with your class, and snoop out sounds, onsets, blends, and rhyme. In pairs, children take turns choosing a card from the pile; as they sound out part of the word, their partner attempts to figure out which...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, The Last Sound Is...

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Partners work with real objects as they practice final phonemes. Here's how it works: Partner A silently chooses an object and sounds it out, determining the final phoneme and saying the sound aloud. Partner B examines the group of...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Sound Bags

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Peers pair up to find, identify and match medial phonemes. Peer one pulls a card or object from a bag, names it, then says its medial sound.—peer two attempts to find a picture or object whose medial sound matches the partner. 
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Pocket Rhymes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Rhyming is fun and it helps build phonological awareness that is key in early reading. Learners use a pocket chart and a set of 40 cards that make 20 rhyming sets to practice recognizing rhyming words. Peer one picks a card from a bag...

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