St. Patrick's Day Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Activities for March

Use these hands-on "St. Patrick's Day" themed activities to work on phonological and phonemic awareness skills in spring! We cover 8 essential skills aligned to the science of reading.

This set 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. Best used for individual or small group instruction.

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

• Word Awareness Poem and Sequencing Cards: Word awareness is the understanding that a phrase or sentence is made up of individual words. It’s also the ability to manipulate words in phrases or sentences. This activity includes a fun poem that helps students develop their ability to recognize and sequence words.  

• Rhyming Riddles: These simple riddles are a great way to help students develop their ability to recognize and produce rhyming words.  

• Syllable Sorting: With this activity, students will learn to recognize syllables and sort words based on the number of syllables they contain.

• Beginning Sound Matching: This phonemic awareness activity is designed to help students develop their ability to recognize the beginning sounds of words.

• Ending Sounds: I-Spy Bingo: This activity is a fun and engaging way for students to practice identifying ending sounds in words.  

• Sorting Middle Sounds: This activity provides students with the opportunity to practice identifying and sorting words based on their middle sounds.  

• Phoneme Segmenting and Blending: Use these "point and slide" cards to practice segmenting the phonemes in short words and then blend them together again. This advanced phonemic awareness activity is a critical precursor to decoding words.

• Phoneme Substitution: With this "What's the New Word?" game, students will learn to substitute individual sounds in words to create new words. This is another advanced phonemic awareness activity that helps readers develop proficiency in manipulating sounds.

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