Try these speech sound activities at home

Which are appropriate preschool phonological awareness activities?

Try these speech sound activities at home

  • Rhyme time. “I am thinking of an animal that rhymes with big.
  • Body part rhymes. Point to a part of your body and ask your child to think of a rhyming word.
  • Read books that play with sounds.
  • Clap it out.
  • Tongue ticklers.
  • “I Spy” first sounds.
  • Sound scavenger hunt.

How do preschoolers teach phonological awareness?

  1. Listen up. Good phonological awareness starts with kids picking up on sounds, syllables and rhymes in the words they hear.
  2. Focus on rhyming.
  3. Follow the beat.
  4. Get into guesswork.
  5. Carry a tune.
  6. Connect the sounds.
  7. Break apart words.
  8. Get creative with crafts.

What is a fun activity to help develop your student phonological awareness skills?

Activity 1: Games to Play While Lined Up Tap the first 4 children on the head as you say each word of the sentence. Ask, “How many words?”, four! Repeat the sentence, or say a different sentence, as you go down the line of children. Rhyme game: Say a few words that rhyme, “cat, fat, bat”.

What order should I teach phonological awareness?

Phonological awareness skills can be conceptualised within a sequence of increasing complexity:

  1. Syllable Awareness (docx – 274.77kb)
  2. Rhyme awareness and production (docx – 400.87kb)
  3. Alliteration – Sorting initial and final sounds (docx – 679.3kb)
  4. Onset-Rime segmentation (docx – 250.94kb)

What is the difference between phonics and phonological awareness?

How about phonological awareness and phonics? Phonological awareness refers to a global awareness of sounds in spoken words, as well as the ability to manipulate those sounds. Phonics refers to knowledge of letter sounds and the ability to apply that knowledge in decoding unfamiliar printed words.

What is a phonological awareness lesson?

Phonological Awareness (PA) focuses on sounds. Therefore effective phonological awareness activities require students to orally practice hearing, producing, and manipulating sounds. At 95 Percent Group we recommend that students master segmenting the sounds in words – phoneme segmentation – before adding print.

What do you teach first phonics or phonological awareness?

Phonics instruction typically starts with letters first and children are taught the sounds that those letters “stand for” or “make”. It is NOT the same thing as phonological awareness. The terms are not interchangeable. Phonological Awareness is the awareness of sounds only!

How do I improve phonological awareness?

Remember that the sound of a letter and the name of the letter are very different things.

  • Make it a game: Play ‘I Spy’ with sounds instead of letters. For example,“I spy with my little eye something that starts with ssss”.
  • Go on a ‘Sound Hunt’ in the house or garden- how many things beginning with ‘mm’ can you find?

    • How to promote phonological awareness?

    – read alphabet books – point out letters and print in the environment – talk about letters and their sounds when you encounter them in every day activities – provide opportunities to play with letter shapes and sounds – explicitly reference letter names and sounds in shared reading and writing activities – use mnemonics and actions – use student names!

    How to teach phonological awareness?

    reciting nursery rhymes like “Itsy Bitsy Spider,”

  • singing songs like “Down by the Bay,” and
  • reading books with alliteration and rhyming.

    • What is an example of phonological awareness?

    Picking out words that rhyme

  • Counting the number of syllables in a word
  • Noticing sound repetition (“Susie sold six salami sandwiches”)