Compound Word Picture Flip Cards – a phonological & phonemic awareness activity

These compound word picture cards are for beginner-level phonemic awareness activities. They are perfect for practising both blending and segmenting compound words. This is your first step in teaching phonological awareness. Ideal for kindergarten or first and second-grade intervention.

You don’t want resources heavy with text when teaching phonological or phonemic awareness. That's why this resource has no letters or words on the cards.

Using only pictures to illustrate the compound words ensures your students practise HEARING the words (phonemic awareness) rather than thinking about letter-sound correlations (phonics).

These picture-based compound word activities have been designed with young learners in mind.

• They use real-life photos so your students can easily relate to them.
• They are hands-on, interactive activities.
• These easy prep PICTURE-BASED compound word activities are also self-checking.

THIS COMPOUND WORD RESOURCE CONTAINS MORE THAN JUST COMPOUND WORD PICTURE CARDS!

YOU WILL RECEIVE:

• 40 Illustrated compound word flip cards for learning to both blend and segment compound words
• A Compound Words Poster to inform your students about compound words
• 3 Learning Prompt Posters to create a compound word learning center
• 2 Student Recording Sheets for evidence of learning
• Teacher Assessment Recording Sheets – to keep teacher observations organised
• Task Card Box Label for storing the flip cards

CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE SAMPLES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Your students must develop their ability to blend and segment words and syllables before you can expect them to segment and blend phonemes.

There are four levels of phonological awareness.

1. word awareness
2. syllable awareness
3. intra-syllable awareness
4. phonemic awareness

This activity is for the second stage - syllable awareness.

In this stage, children learn to segment words into syllables and blend syllables together to form words. When introducing syllables, use disyllabic (2 syllable) words first. Then, add monosyllabic (1 syllable) words and other multisyllabic (3 or more syllable) words. Your children will then be ready to work with the individual phonemes in words.

Have students struggling with syllable awareness?

Start with compound words. If you have students struggling with blending and segmenting phonemes, you need to step back and practice with compound words.

It is much easier for children to hear the bigger units of language, like words and syllables, than it is to differentiate between the individual phonemes in a word. Give your students success by starting with activities designed to practice segmenting and blending words and syllables first.

That’s why I designed this fun activity using 40 different compound words.

This resource is a 100% picture-based, self-checking phonological awareness activity.

Students can practice both blending and segmenting compound words with these cards. On one side of each card is a picture representing a compound word. Flip it over, and you'll find two separate images illustrating the individual parts of that compound word.

USE THE CARDS 2 WAYS

1. Students practice hearing the 2 word parts of the compound word and then blend these parts together to make the complete compound word.
2. Students practice hearing the complete compound word and then segment it into the 2 parts.

I like my students to work with a partner to practice blending or segmenting the compound words, but it is also suitable for independent work.

PERFECT FOR:

· small group literacy rotations

· guided reading instruction

· buddy reading

· independent reading

· hands-on literacy centers

· homework

· reading stations

· morning tubs

· early finishers

· reading stations

· word work

· reading intervention

· or to inform your assessment grades

The key to successful learning is to make it engaging and enjoyable for your students. Using games and hands-on activities like this one will capture your students’ interest and keep them motivated to develop their phonemic awareness.

SELF CORRECTING: Students blend the 2 picture words to make a new compound word and then flip the card over. They can check their accuracy because the new picture on the back of each card makes this activity self-checking.

EASY PREP:

1. Print the cards onto paper and cut out the strips.
2. Fold each strip in half and laminate to make the flip cards. You’ll have a picture on the front and self-checking pictures on the back.
3. Easily hole punch each card using the guide marks included.
4. Thread the cards onto a binder ring.

HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT THE PREVIEW?

IT HAS EXAMPLES OF ALL THE BONUS RESOURCES INCLUDED IN THIS SET

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