Holiday Treats Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Activities for Christmas

Use these fun hands-on cookies and treats themed activities to work on phonological and phonemic awareness skills during your Christmas or Holidays unit! This pack covers 8 essential skills aligned to the science of reading.

Phonological awareness is the ability to hear sounds that make up words in spoken language. Phonemic awareness is one aspect of phonological awareness and refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

Students at risk for reading difficulty often have lower levels of phonological awareness and phonemic awareness than do their classmates. The good news is that phonemic awareness and phonological awareness can be taught and developed through a number of activities.

This set of phonological and phonemic awareness activities is ideal for a PreK-K Montessori class but can be adapted for most early childhood and K-2 classrooms. It will also be useful for RTI, SLP and Special Ed teachers.

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Contents:

1. Word Awareness Poem and Sequencing Cards: Use this simple little poem to practice word awareness and basic sequencing skills.

2. Rhyming Riddles: Practice rhyming skills by solving these simple riddles.

3. Syllable Sorting: Clap out the syllables and sort pictures onto sorting mats.

4. Beginning Sound Matching: Find the picture that starts with the same sound.

5. Ending Sounds: I-Spy Bingo This is a fun game to practice ending sounds in a small group. Bonus activity: What doesn't belong?

6. Sorting Middle Sounds: Sort pictures by middle vowel

7. Phoneme Segmenting and Blending: Use these "point and slide" cards to practice segmenting the phonemes in short words and then blend them together again.

8. Phoneme Substitution: This "What's the new word?" activity is a great way to practice manipulating phonemes.

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