Free Reading
Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
Free Reading
Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Picture Hunt Activity: Phoneme Manipulation
This activity uses the students' favorite classroom book as a resource. The instructor says We are going on a Picture Hunt! and then asks the class where an object is in the picture, but leaves out the first letter sound when asking.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in students' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Maze Madness: Silent E
This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will follow long vowel words that end in silent "e" to complete a maze. An answer key and lesson extension...
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: "The Blending Slide" Sounding Out Cvc Words
A kindergarten/first grade lesson plan for sounding out consonant vowel consonant words. Students and teachers will benefit from this hands-on activity.
Starfall
Starfall: Word Machines: Short A
In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.
Other
Target Tests and Target Lessons That Teach Phonics
This site has simple lessons that use images and everyday words to demonstrate the usage of diphthongs, regular vowels, and irregular vowels. Click on on one of the "Phonics Lessons," to prepare for one of the corresponding tests.
Free Reading
Free Reading: The Take Away Game: Onset Rime Segmenting
A classroom activity led by the instructor. The student is given a spoken onset and rime, and learns to remove the onset and state the remaining rime.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Words Separated Into Phonemes
This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
Free Reading
Free Reading: What's the Secret? Oral Segmentation Accuracy Activity
In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your young scholars to use. There are lots of...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phoneme Segmenting: Say and Slide Phonemes
A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to count phonemes in picture cards. All materials are included.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Name That Picture: Cvc Words
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and identify the words that contain the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) spelling pattern. An...