Phonemic Awareness and Letter/Word Work Activities
Examples of Activities and Routines
FULL GROUP routines for younger students
- Sing familiar songs with rhyming words during morning opening. (Down by the Bay)
- Shared reading/ reciting of poems
- Teacher read aloud of picture books with rhyming text
- Singing alphabet songs while leader points to leatters
- Chanting letter names and sounds and key words together as reader points to letters (e.g., "A ." /a/ , "apple" B /b/ boat...
- Singing silly songs that manipulate phonemes (e.g. Raffi: Willoughby Wallaby)
SMALL GROUP, adult-facilitated routines for younger or older students (led by teacher or paraprofessional)
- Any of above full group activities
- Making and reading "alphabet books" (finding pictures that begin with sound for each letter) Older students can construct books with age appropriate photos for each letter.
- Lotto/ bingo: Matching letter cards with photos/ pictures of objects that begin with that sound
- Making words with individual letter tiles or magnetic letters (teacher models and facilitates--e.g., This word is at. Let's add one letter-- a C to the beginning --now we have /c/ /at/--say it fast--cat... what if we change that letter c to an M... Now we have /m/..../at--say it fast--mat!)
- "word wall" On the first day, the teacher introduces 2-4 high frequency words and talks about meaning and spelling features. For each new word, students read it, spell it, clap it, chant it together with the teacher. On subsequent days, the teacher facilitates "guessing games" to find and point to or copy words from the word wall and to read them aloud together.
SELF-DIRECTED PRACTICE routines for younger or older students
- computer software with commercial programs (e.g., Earobics, Edmark, other phonics programs)
- making new words with onset and rime cards (e.g., cards that have individual consonant cards and "word family" cards ).
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- "playing teacher" and pointing to letter charts to review and chant letters and sounds with a partner ("A, apple, /a/, B, ball, /b/...")
- making new words with individual letters and tiles
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND IDEAS to support student learning about phonemic awareness, phonics, letter and word study, see:
www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/second_words_activity.htm
