Phonological awareness activities

Have you ever heard the term phonemic awareness and wondered what it is? I get a lot of emails from parents who are ready to teach their child how to

When it comes to teaching reading and spelling, there are three terms that are used often: phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics. But what do they mean? How are they the same? How are they different? Do I really need to know the difference? How do you teach each one? Such great questions! Let’s explore ... Read More about Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, & Phonics

Beginning phonemic awareness activities using items you already have in your classroom! Using blending and segmenting sounds in words.

Start off the year with daily phonemic awareness lessons. We've created 81 quick fun and easy to use phonemic awareness activities for kindergarten. No Prep - nothing to copy, no props needed! You could do these in the dark. Phonemic awareness activities are a great way to cover the kindergarten phonological awareness standards. Visit our website to read our blog about the importance of phonemic awareness.

Set kids up for success with this mega-list of fun and easy phonological awareness activities. Syllabication, segmenting, blending, and more!

FREE printable sorting activity for preschool and kindergarten kids to sort syllables with a fun popcorn theme! This is a great literacy activity to develop phonemic or phonological awareness. Clap and count the syllables in each popcorn kernel and sort it with the correct popcorn box.

How to teach phonological awareness skills in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Hands-on activities to make learning fun.

These hands-on, playful, and engaging phonological awareness activities for preschoolers will get them reading ready!

Use this fun, hands-on activity to practice phonological and phonemic awareness with your toddler, preschooler or kindergartener! #playbasedlearning #phonologicalawareness #phonemicaareness #prek #preschool

The ability to count syllables is an important part of phonological awareness, which is a pre-reading skill. And these FREE Syllable Counting Cards {download at the END of this post} are a great way to make counting syllables visible to kids. These are different than our syllable clip cards, as they get kids using manipulatives to ... Read More about FREE Syllable Counting Cards

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness, what kids can do, what parents do,

This There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Beginning Sound Activity is a hands-on way for pre-readers to work on identifying initial sounds.

This free printable game is a great rhyming activity for kids in preschool and PreK. Just move around the board, say the picture, and name a rhyming word. It's a fun way to build phonological awareness!#phonologicalawareness #rhyming #preschool

Use this free printable Rhyming Sort as a phonological awareness activity in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten for early literacy instruction.

L has been able to sound out cvc words for a while now but this past month she has completely exploded in her interest and ability to read a...

These free space syllable cards help kids to identify the number of syllables in words. #syllableactivities #phonologicalawareness #syllables #spaceactivities #spacetheme #spacecenters #preschoolliteracy #kindergartenliteracy

Phonemic awareness is so important for early reading success! Give your learner lots of practice with these free printable beginning sounds clip or cover cards! #printableactivities #preschoolactivities #literacyactivities #alphabet #printableliteracyactivities #kindergartenactivities #kindergartenliteracyactivities #kindergartenliteracy #education #phoncsactivites #beginningsoundsprintablegame #beginningsoundsactivties #beginningsoundsactivitieskindergarten #printablebooks

A food-themed syllable puzzle for your students to consolidate their knowledge of syllables in words!

These engaging phoneme blending activities for kindergarten are a great addition to your small group phonological awareness practice. Help your students practice blending phonemes with these engaging activities. Click here to take a closer look at these phonological awareness activities for phoneme blending practice.

We had so much fun with this Rainbow Hop Letter Sounds Game! This life-size board game is a fantastic way to move and learn alphabet sounds and counting!