Phonemic Awareness Activities for the whole class!

Middle School Teachers:

🤍 Play games or challenges with the whole class. This could be word work (Making Big Words is a great resource), Rhyming competitions, partner work to blend or segment sounds)

🤍 Use Pseudo-words that follow real word patterns to make it more interesting and challenging

🤍 Let the kids who are good at this be leaders and model the skills for students who struggle!

🤍 Big kids like games too... & let's face it. They're going through a LOT in middle school. Sometimes an easy game is a great relief for those kids who can do this - and also strengthens skills for kids who need the practice. Win win!

Elementary Teachers:

🤍 Play games based on a specific phonemic skill every day for 5-10 minutes with the whole class. (Making words, tapping out sounds, rhyming, alliteration games)

🤍 Play a repeat after me game while practicing different skills (blending phonemes, manipulating, segmenting)

🤍 Let students who are good at these skills help the others!

🤍 Model these skills during read aloud time and talk intentionally about syllables, rhymes, sounds in words!

Parents of littles:

🤍 Play silly rhyming games

🤍 Read lots of books and be intentional about emphasizing rhymes or starting sounds in words

🤍Play alliteration games - take turns thinking of words that all start with the same sounds

🤍 Clap out syllables of big words