Cathe Smith - Phonemic Awareness 15 Minutes Every Day Makes A Difference
Cathe had some great ideas to use with well known children songs to help with phonemic awareness and spelling. She also introduced me to Jack Hartmann. I now LOVE Jack Hartmann. That's another article!
Phonemic Awareness
Use for a warm-up activity in Kindergarten and First Grade Classrooms. When letters are in between slashes you make the sound not the name.
Sing to the tune of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush".
This is the way we sound out (bike),
Sound out _______, sound out ________.
This is the way we sound out __________. (/b/ - /i/ - /k/)
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Sing to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
Teacher:
Listen, listen to my word.
Tell me all the sounds you heard. (cat)
Children:
We listened, listened to your word.
These are all the sounds we heard (/c/ - /a/ - /t/).
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Sing to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".
Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze the sounds
Pull them all together
Use your ears and listen well
What word do you hear?
D...O...G (Stretch it out... say the sounds slowly)
DOG (Students say the word)
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Sing to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It"
If you think you know this word shout it out (clap, clap)!
If you think you know this word shout it out (clap, clap)!
If you think you know this word, then tell me what you've heard
If you think you know this word shout it out (clap, clap)!
D...O...G (Say the sounds, not the letter names)
DOG (Students say the word)
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Sing to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm".
What's the sound that starts these words:
Turtle, time, and teeth?
/t/ is the sound that starts these words:
Turtle, time, and teeth.
With a /t/, /t/ here and a /t/, /t/ there,
Here a /t/, there a /t/, everywhere a /t/, /t/.
/t/ is the sound that starts these words:
Turtle, time, and teeth.
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Sing to the tune of "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"
Teacher:
Where oh where do you hear the /b/.
Where oh where can it be?
In bird and bug and bed and bark
Where oh where can it be?
Children:
In the beginning.
Shana Whitlock - HelpMeRead.com
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