Nov 18, 2019 | Activities
If you want your students to have fun with phonics, Rhyme Time is an excellent activity! It’s cheerful, it’s rhythmic, and it gets everyone involved. Best of all, your young learners slowly pick up skills like deletion and substitution without even knowing it!...
Nov 17, 2019 | Activities
Children who successfully develop phonemic awareness become better readers, writers and spellers. A big part of developing phonemic awareness is being able to manipulate phonemes. This means that children are able to delete and substitute phonemes to create new...
Nov 15, 2019 | Activities
Learning letters and sounds through games is an excellent way to reinforce phonics training. When young children are learning their phonemes, games provide entertainment and education at the same time! When we teach children about phonemes, they begin to understand...
Nov 14, 2019 | Activities
In phonics, sounds of letters are called phonemes. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound used to make words. It is also the first step in learning how to read through phonics. But, phonics sounds can be tough for kids at first. They might be comfortable using...
Nov 13, 2019 | Activities
Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize the individual phonemes (sounds) in words. This skill is the foundation of all reading. To help children become strong readers, we must take time to teach letter sounds. Games can make letter sounds a whole lot more fun...
Nov 12, 2019 | Activities
Beginning letter sounds are the sounds—or phonemes—that start words. For example, the word cat starts with the phoneme /k/. The word bat starts with phoneme /b/. When teaching young learners how to read, it is important to start with building phonemic awareness....
