Phonemic Awareness Activities

• Ask “do pail – tail rhyme”

• Give me a word that rhymes with bat

• Finish the rhyme red bed, blue _______.

• Clap to the word parts in rainbow

• Ask to count the word parts in, airplane, table, porcupine, communication

• Have them blend syllables bub+ble, mit+ten, ro+bot.

ask what rhymes with pig and starts with /d/? book /c/, dig /r/, dog, /fr/

• Model by saying I hear a /j/ at the beginning of jump

• What is the beginning sound in neck, mat, that

• What do you hear in the middle of kitten

• What do you hear at the end of jog

• Tell me what two words begin with the same sounds, keep, king, jump or peach, frog, pile

• Listen to each group of words and tell me which have the same beginning sounds, teeth, goat, fish, tu

I say it slowly you say it fast, /c/ /a/ /t/

• How many sounds do you hear in the word dog

• What sounds do you hear in the word man

• What word would we have if we changed the /t/ in Tommy to and /m/

• What word would we have if we left out the /t/ in the middle of stand?