THE FLOOR: Phonemic Awareness Games To Go

Can your child do a variety of earlier PA games? Then:

Blend Sounds Together

1. Say a word ‘in pieces.’
2. Help the child to blend the pieces into a whole word.
3. Choose 'pieces' to match your child's skill.

   Compound words are easiest.

   Syllables are easy.

   First sounds plus endings are harder.

   Individual sounds are advanced.

Compound words are easiest: base--ball, dog--house, rain--bow, light--bulb, milk--shake, foot--ball, snow--man, cow--boy, pop--corn.

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Syllables are easy: but--ter--fly, as--tro--naut, pa--ja--mas, di--no--saur, birth--day--cake, al--li--ga--tor, com--pu--ter, ba--by, bi--cy--cle, dol--phin, ex--er--cise, el--e--phant, ham--bur--ger, tel--e--vi--sion, cook--ies, gir--affe, um--brel--la, yes--ter--day, lol--li--pop, mos--qui--to, por--cu--pine, spa--ghe--tti, zip--per, mac--a--ro--ni, Ted--dy--bear, wa--ter--mel--on, ti--ger, re--frig--er--a--tor.

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First sound plus endings are a bit harder: t--ickle, ch--ipmonk .

TIP: say t--ickle (not 'tuh-ickle') , ch--ipmonk (not 'chuh-ipmonk').

Whisper /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /h/, /s/, ‘sh,’ ‘ch’ rather than saying ‘puh,’ ‘tuh,’ ‘kuh,’ ‘fuh,’ ‘huh,’ 'suh,' 'shuh,' 'chuh.' Avoid adding the 'uh' vowel whenever you can. Learn to pronounce the sounds correctly.

P--opcorn, eee--ellow (yellow), c--omputer, z--ipper, d --olphin, c--artoon, c --ooky, b --icycle, ooo--ishbone (wishbone), t--elephone, p--orcupine, eee --esterday (yesterday), b--irthday, m--osquito, t--elevision, s--paghetti, h--amburgur, d--inosaur , l--ucky, t--eddybear.
ch--eese, f--an, l--ook, s--and, n--ight, s--at, r-- un, l-- et, ooo--ish (wish), sh--ine, m--ake, z--oo, eee--es (yes).

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Individual sounds are advanced.

1. Begin with words having a 'stretchy' first sound: M-m-m--o--p. Here is a list of words for easiest sound blending.
2. It's trickier to blend words with a short first sound: p--ie, d--o--g.

More on this topic: The Reading Treehouse -> THE FLOOR: Phonemic Awareness

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