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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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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 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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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: 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: 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: 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, Rhyme or No Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Rhyming is fun, builds phonemic awareness, and is a tried and true pre-reading skill. This activity helps learners identify words that rhyme. Young scholars listen to a song, locate a rhyming word they hear by clapping then draw a...
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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 Matching, Sound Pie

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Develop phonological awareness by challenging pupils to recognize final sounds in familiar words. Using magazines or other print resources, scholars search for pictures of words with the same final sound as a starter picture. Once they...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Syllables, Syllable Graph

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars make a pictograph based on the number of syllables in each picture card. They choose a card, say the name of the object on the card, break the word into syllables, count the syllables, then glue the picture onto the number chart...
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Name Changes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Set up a listening center, record the provided script, and see how well your class can manipulate phonemes based on the instructions you've provided. This center-based activity builds the phonological awareness and phoneme manipulation...
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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

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: Phoneme Manipulating, Word Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Once your scholars know their letter sounds and recognize them in words, have them try making new words by manipulating phonemes. Pupils are given a word change picture board and a stack of word pictures. They pick a card and place it...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Phoneme Swap

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Reading readiness can be a fun skill to foster. Scholars manipulate phonemes to change one word into another. They pick picture cards, say the object's name on the card, then change the final phoneme to create a new word. They then find...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Photo Chart

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Have fun with student photographs in this phonics activity! Learners sort their classmates' photos by initial sound on a large poster board with the alphabet written vertically down the left side. Also provided are various pictures...
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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: 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: 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

Picture Slide

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is another fun and engaging way to help youngsters build phonological awareness. In pairs, they use the provided picture cards to sound out segments of words. As they slide the picture together they say a segment of the...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Picture Slide

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A hands-on activity challenges young scholars to name a picture, segment its phonemes, then blend those sounds to make the word. 
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Memory Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars play a memory-matching game to practice recognizing rhyming words and sounds. With picture cards, they flip over two cards and say the pictures' names. If the pair make a rhyming match, the learner keeps the cards. The...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness - Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Treasure Chest

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Working in pairs, scholars use picture cards to practice segmenting words into phonemes and blending phonemes into words. When a peer answers correctly they place a penny in a treasure chest. Incorrect responses make the card go back in...