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Contents 1 Common core standards 2 Related articles 3 Teaching strategies 4 Classroom Activities 5 Cyber games and activities 5.1 iPad apps 6 Free worksheets 7 Videos 8 At home 9 Helpful links

Common core standards

• Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2d
  • (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

• Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2c

Related articles

• Initial sounds
• Medial sounds
• Final sounds
• Sound substitution and omission
• Count sounds and syllables
• Blend, segment and stretch words
• Rhyme
• Discriminating between long and short vowels

Teaching strategies

• Because of the variety of resources for each word part, Initial sounds, Medial sounds, and Final sounds each have their own page. This page has only general strategies for working on awareness of sounds in words.

Elkonin boxes Elkonin boxes (also known as sound boxes) have been around a really long time! Basically, you draw a box with three columns. Students push a penny into each column when they hear a sound in the word. So for the word "map", they would push a penny up when they hear a "m", then another penny for the "a" sound, and a final penny for the "p" sound. Lots of websites have great resources on how to teach phonemic awareness with the boxes. Boggles World has over 50 Elkonin worksheets like the one picture above as does Sparklebox. Reading rockets has instructions on how to use them and links to blank templates. Phonics Intervention Strategy has scripted lessons using them.

• Put up a finger
  • As you stretch a word out, put up a finger for each sound you say (so SAT gets three fingers). Then, say the word quickly, making a fist as you do so. Next, have the students do it with you.
  • Alternatively, have students tap down their arm for each sound they hear in a word and then brush down the arm for the whole word (so for "sat" they would tap their shoulder for the "s", their elbow for the "a", their wrist for the "t" and then brush their hand down their arm for the whole word.

• Say it slow, say it fast
  • Say a word slowly (stretch it out) and have the students say it back to you quickly. Or say it quickly and have the students repeat it back in slo-mo.
  • Early literacy connection has a game for it with instructions that seem pretty cool.

Classroom Activities

• Old McDonald
  • The Los Angeles County of Education has created a beginning, middle, and end word sounds song to the tune of Old McDonald.
  • Segmenting is another song from them that has students sing along as they segment a word into sounds.

Cyber games and activities

iPad apps

Free worksheets

Videos

At home

Helpful links