Phonemic Awareness Instructional Strategies

• Have students break their names apart into individual sounds
  • Have children that have the same sound at the beginning of their names stand up, say different sounds and have students say their names beginning with that sound
• Encourage phonics spelling
  • have students write the sounds they hear when they are writing, don't worry about correct spelling, focus on the sounds
• Clap syllables
  • Use the students' names to clap how many syllables are in each name
• Read rhyming books or nursery rhymes
• Use a slinky to stretch out a word and have them guess the word you are saying
  • Have the students choose a word and stretch out the word into its individual sounds and have you guess the word 

It's Important to keep things fun and students engaged. 

References

• Cunningham, P. M., & Allington, R. L. (2016). Classrooms that work: They can all read and write. Pearson.
• Tips and activities for phonemic awareness. Sarah's Teaching Snippets. (2021, February 24). Retrieved July 30, 2022, from https://sarahsnippets.com/tips-and-activities-for-phonemic/