Phonemic awareness skills are the foundation for competent readers. Students who have mastered these skills in the first two years of formal schooling often progress easily with their reading skills, as they have developed one of the essential reading foundations; phonemic awareness.
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This activity will help your students work on phoneme: deletion, addition, blending and substitution.
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The best part is that you can implement this with any word list that you use in your classroom.
Students could work in groups of 3-4, as apposed to pairs.
Furthermore, you could also use this idea with sentence construction. I love using bottle caps, and collect them like a crazy woman! I like to use them for sight word games. You can easily write on them with a permanent marker. Write a sentence out, using one bottle cap per word. Place them in the soap container, and play as stated above.
If you think the shaking of the containers is too noisy, you can glue foam or felt to the inside.
If you’re looking for phonemic awareness assessments and interventions for K-1, you and your students will love this no fuss download. Read more about the 34 explicit skills and how to systematically assess and provide interventions. Click here to see the blog post.
You might also like this fun, hands-on word work center idea that sees students working on phonemes with letter tiles. Click here to see it.
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