Activities

Below are 5 phonemic awareness activities that teachers can incorporate into their literacy lessons to support student learning.

1.) What's That Sound

This activity increases children's sound awareness by having them practice listening for sounds and distinguishing between different sounds, especially similar ones.

Students will participate by having their eyes covered, but ears open to hear. The teacher will then use different common objects to create noise (tapping with pencil, closing door, knocking on door, heavy footsteps). Relying only on what they hear, students will guess what they think was causing the noise.

2.) Object Sound Identification

This activity increases children's sound awareness by having them demonstrate/practice the skill of isolating and identifying the initial sound in a word.

Students can do this with items around the room or they can be displayed images of familiar items. They will say the object name and isolate the first sound then select which of the provided letters makes the sound found at the beginning of the word

3.) Roll a Rhyme

This activity increases children's sound awareness by having them listen to the sounds within the words and identify word parts from the sounds they hear.

Students would participate by rolling a dice and then using the number identified on the dice to know which picture (word) they will be working with. From the picture they will say the word the picture represents and come up with a word that rhymes with it.

4.) Syllable Name Game

This activity increases children's sound awareness by having them demonstrate their ability to manipulate oral language and segment words into syllables. The game teaches syllable segmentation by using the names of the children.

The teacher will give a student the bumble bee and say, “Bippity, Boppity, Bumble Bee, will you say your name for me?” The student will say their name and then the class together will clap out each syllable in the name. The student will pass the bee to a different student and the process repeats.

5.) Head-Waist-Toes

This activity helps students increase sound awareness by increasing phoneme segmentation by having students identifying and isolating the initial, middle, and ending sound of words.

Say a three-sound word, such as mitt. Students then stand and touch their heads while saying the first sound (/m/), waists while saying the second sound (/i/), and toes while saying the final sound (/t/). Then touch your waist again while saying, “What sound?”

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