This free stoplight visual can be used to help students strengthen their phonemic awareness skills, specifically segmenting and blending phonemes. In a segmenting activity, the educator orally presents a student with a word (e.g., “ship”), and the student uses the stoplight visual to segment the word into phonemes (e.g., /sh/ /i/ /p/). They may point to each circle or place a counter in each circle while they orally segment the word.In a blending activity, the educator points to a circle as they