Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: The Development of Phonological Skills
Basic listening skills and "word awareness" are critical precursors to phonological awareness. Learn the milestones for acquiring phonological skills.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
US Department of Education
U.s. Department of Education: Teaching Approaches: Phonemic Awareness
What is phonemic awareness? Check out this site to learn more about phonemic awareness. Teachers can gain an overview of this topic when they visit this resource.
Other
Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics and Sight Words
Discover more about phonemic awareness when you visit this informative site. This resource features activities that teach phonemic awareness and activities that teach alphabetics.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Levels of Phonemic Awareness
This site outlines seven levels of phonemic awareness ranging from awareness of rhyming words to phoneme manipulation.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Phonemic Awareness Activities
This site offers phonemic awareness activities that will extend the concepts and skills associated with this reading skill. Activities include rhyming words, segmenting syllables, substituting beginning sounds, isolating sounds, and...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Phonological Awareness Activities [Pdf]
A series of ready-to-print cards filled with ideas and activities to increase students' recognition and understanding of rhyme and rhythm.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Phonological Awareness Activities [Pdf]
A series of ready-to-print cards filled with ideas and activities to increase students' recognition and understanding of rhyme and rhythm. In Spanish.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Phonological Awareness/rhyming
During this instructional activity learners will be introduced to rhyme in a variety of ways. Students will use picture cards, practice rhyming on the Internet, and listen to a book with rhyme. At the end of the instructional activity,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Classroom Strategies
A collection of effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.
University of Oregon
Official Dibels Homepage
This assessment focuses on phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge. Free downloads available on the website.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Generating Rhymes for Analogy Based Phonics
This online lesson introduces students to many different approaches toward learning about rhyme and other similarities in words, such as shared/guided reading and small group instruction. A good tool for increasing students' phonological...
Other
Effective Decoding Instruction for Diverse Learners
How can you implement effective decoding instruction for diverse learners in your classroom? This site focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, morphology, and the six basic types of syllables in the English language.
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: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Purple Primate
This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple words and then identify each word that start with /g/. An answer key...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Chuggin' Choo Choo
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will look at a series of words and identify each word that starts with the /ch/ consonant digraph. An answer key and lesson...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Rockin' Thad
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a series of pictures with digraphs and then identify each picture that start with the /th/ digraph. An answer...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Picnic Party
This printable instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that includes the /ck/ digraph. An...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Splash!
This printable cworksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that include the /sh/ digraph. An answer key and...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Whispering Whales
This printable letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look for hidden words that start with the /wh/ digraph. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Sam Shrimp
This printable letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read a fill-in-the-blank paragraph and then identify the correct fill-in words that start with /shr/, /squ/, or...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Hidden Words
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden words that contain "ie" to form long /e/. An answer key and lesson extension are included.