The purpose of this “during” activity is to provide practice opportunities for students to engage in the manipulation of phonemes through an activity called "chaining." This activity supports students in building their articulation and distinguishing between the initial, medial, and final sounds in words. "Chaining" allows students to warm up their brains and practice hearing, seeing, and moving letters around to recognize patterns and repetition in language that will support their phonological and phonemic awareness.
This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.
The purpose of this “After” activity is to assess students' ability to manipulate phonemes through an activity called chaining. This activity supports students in building their articulation and distinguishing between the initial, medial, and final sounds in words. Chaining allows students to warm up their brains and practice hearing, seeing, and moving letters around to recognize patterns and repetition in language that will support their phonological and phonemic awareness. Using this as an assessment tool is a great way to identify students that have not fully mastered substitutions, deletions, and additions.
The purpose of this “before” activity is to provide practice opportunities for students to manipulate phonemes through substitutions of initial, medial, and final sounds. This activity supports students in building their articulation and distinguishing between the initial, medial, and final sounds in words. Advanced Phonemic Awareness Skills (Google Slides) allows students to warm up their thinking processes and practice hearing, seeing, and manipulating letters to recognize patterns and repetition in language. This is a great way to support their phonological and phonemic awareness skills.
In this activity, students will demonstrate the advanced phonemic awareness skill of manipulating phonemes. Students will work with a partner, using picture cards to delete phonemes in initial blends. This activity can be extended by having students count the phonemes in each word and sorting the picture cards based on the number of phonemes in each word.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this introductory activity, the teacher will introduce the terms phoneme and blend. The teacher will demonstrate how to delete a phoneme (sound) from the beginning of a spoken word that contains a consonant blend (a group of two to three consonants that retain their sound in a word).
In this activity, students will practice the advanced phonemic awareness skill of deleting the initial sound in a one-syllable word that has an initial consonant blend using an Elkonin box mat and manipulatives.