Phonemic Awareness activities

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Phonemic Awareness activities

• These exercises are from the book
• At the cutting edge (2nd edition, 2005)
• By Tom Nicholson
• Published by New Zealand Council for Educational
  Research, Wellington)

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Levels of phonological analysis Word to Syllable
to Onset-rime to Phoneme
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Initial phonemeTeacher says I spy something
beginning with p (pupil points to picture of
PIANO)


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BlendingTeacher says Point to the C-A-P (pupil
points to the picture of the CAP)


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Final sound Teacher says I spy something
ending with the sound T (answer is cat)


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Final sound - Yes-No gameTeacher says Does
turtle end with t? (answer in no) Does hat end
with t? (answer is yes)


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Segmentation activity Teacher says Say DUCK.
Now put your finger on the first square ans tell
me the first phoneme in DUCK. Now put your finger
on the second square and tell me the second
phoneme in DUCK. And so on.
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SegmentingTeacher says Point to the /DOG/. What
are the 3 sounds in /DOG/? (answer is d-o-g)


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Deletion and Substitution Teacher says Say
TURTLE without the T (answer is urtle). Say SUN
without the S (answer is un). Instead of G,
begin GUN with B (answer is bun). Instead of T,
end HAT with M (answer is ham). Hint be sure
just to show the student the pictures below - be
sure not to spell the words for them say each
word (e.g., turtle) according to its correct
pronunciation.