Phonemic awareness activities are important to teach
students how to read. If you are working with a struggling reader, you may
notice that the student also struggles with segmenting and blending sounds. There
are a variety of phonemic awareness activities. The following is one where the
teacher segments the word. The student then has to figure out what the word
is. The student listens to each phoneme
the teacher says and blends them together to create a word. Here is the
phonemic awareness activity:
Teacher: /b/
/a/ /t/
Student: Bat
Teacher: /M/
/e/ /l/
Student: Mel
Teacher: /f/
/o/ /g/
Student: fog
Teacher: /b/
/u/ /s/
Student: bus
Teacher: /n/
/a/ /b/
Student: nab
Notice how the words contain different phonemes. Don’t
follow “cat” with “bat,” because the last two phonemes of these words are the
same. Thus, the student does not have to engage. They are memorizing “at” if
“cat” and “bat” are in order. Vary the sound patterns to ensure the student is
really building phonemic awareness. To make the activity extra challenging,
incorporate infrequent words like “nab.” If you incorporate infrequent words,
you reduce the chances that the student is guessing.
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