How to help your child with Phonemic Awareness…

Direct teaching of specific sounds
Clapping games
Rhyming games
“What do you hear?” games
Stretching and shrinking

Listening to Sequences of Sounds
Activity 1
What you need
Objects that make interesting, distinctive sounds.
Examples:
Banging on wall/table/lap Snapping fingers
Blowing a whistle Crumbling paper
Blowing nose Drumming with fingers
Clapping Eating an apple
Clicking with tongue Noisy chewing
Pouring liquid Tearing paper
Rubbing hands together Stirring with a teaspoon
Slamming a book Hammering
Sharpening a pencil Coughing
Cutting with scissors Writing on blackboard

Activity 2
What do your do?
Ask the children to cover their eyes and listen to and identify the sound they hear
Once the children have caught on to the game, make two noises, one after the other.
Without peeking, the children are to guess the two sounds in sequence saying, “There are two sounds. First we heard a _______, and then we heard a _______.”
After the children can identify a sequence of two sounds, increase the number of sounds in sequence.

Activity 3 Counting Words in a Sentence
What You Need
5-7 objects-blocks, coins, fruit loops, M&M’s
What Do You Do
You say a sentence
Ask the child to repeat the sentence. As she says each word, show her how to move one object for each word to position the objects in a line.
Then ask her to count the objects. That is the number of words in this sentence.
Increase the number of words in the sentence as she understands the task.

The dog barks.
A cat scratches.
The brown dog sleeps

Activity 4 “Un-Compound” That Word
What You Do
You say a compound word.
Ask the child to repeat it.
Then ask the child to say what word remind if you omit one portion.
The child pronounces the word that is left.

Examples:
Cowboy Say it again without the boy cow
Outside Say it again without the out. side
Grasshopper Say it again without the grass. hopper
Jellyfish Say it again without the fish jelly
Zookeeper Say it again without the zoo. keeper
Rattlesnake Say it again without the snake rattle
Cupcake Say it again without the cake. cup
Dishwasher Say it again without the dish washer
Horsefly Say it again without the horse fly
Baseball Say it again without the base ball
Campground Say it again without the ground camp

Activity 5Hearing Rhyming Words
What You Do
Say each pair or words below and ask the child to repeat them and tell you if the words rhyme. They rhyme if all the sounds are the same except the beginning sound.
Start down the first column for the easiest pairs, followed by the middle, and then the right column
Do a few at a time - not all at once.

go/top tip/lip nose/rose
in/lap lamp/camp sock/soup
yes/my rest/test tie/by
mad/sad fox/box spoon/moon
cat/rat shoe/sit man/mop
rip/bag red/ran dress/mess
out/pig my/by round/pound
hit/sit fix/mix rain/train
him/but now/nap like/’lick
hop/mop sad/sheep inch/itch

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