St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "a_e" and "e_e" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Lessons 68 73 Review
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews how to pronounce words that incorporate"a_e", "e_e", "ing", and other patterns. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Er, Le Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "er" and "le" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Lessons 84 88 Review
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate "ie", "ui", "u", "3 syllables", "4 syllables", and more. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Connect 4 Words: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity
A reading game based on "Connect 4" that will build student's abilities to say the name and sound of a letter and find a word beginning with that sound.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Race Game, Oral Segmentation Accuracy
Students are divided into two teams. The teacher calls one person from each team up at a time to look at a picture. The first player to yell out how many sounds are in the picture gets a point for the team. This site includes a link to a...
Free Reading
Free Reading: What's the Secret? Oral Segmentation Accuracy Activity
In this activity, the teacher says three words and has the students identify the common sound. This site includes a link to a Word List Generator.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Phonemic Awareness Activities
This site contains activities for Phonemic Awareness. They provide activities for students to learn to identify and manipulate phonemes.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Chuggin' Choo Choo
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a series of words and identify each word that starts with the /ch/ consonant digraph. An answer key and lesson...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Draw My Sounds: Oral Blending Fluency Activity
A fun activity that has students draw each individual letter and then blend them together.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Treasure Box Game, Segmenting Syllables
A classroom game designed to build accuracy skills in learners' abilities to identify syllables. The teacher prints picture cards (this site links to the site for pictures) of one-, two-, or three-syllable words. Students pull a picture...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Catch a Sound: Final Sounds Game
This site contains a flexible activity that teaches students how to "catch" or identify the final sound of a word.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Graph the Sounds: Oral Segmentation Activity
A small group activity. Each group receives a Graph the Sound page (link included on site). The teacher holds up a picture and the group must graph each sound they hear when they pronounce the word.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Words Separated Into Phonemes
This page contains audio clips of words separated into phonemes. The audios give the word and then the word separated. There is a link to the Phonological Awareness activities page that utilizes this sound page. The sounds are pronounced...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Lucky Dip Game: Oral Blending and Segmenting
Students pull an object from a bag, keep it hidden, stretch out its name by pronouncing each letter sound for at least a second, and everyone else has to guess the object.
Free Reading
Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy
An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Listen for My Sound. A Phoneme Segmenting Activity
A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Syllable Slap! Segmenting Syllables
A higher level activity that helps students develop fluency in identifying open and closed syllable words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Split Stomp, Segmenting Syllables Activity
A classroom activity that introduces and builds the accuracy of students' abilities of identifying syllables in a word. The instructor says a word, the student stomps once for each syllable in the word and then stomps one more time to...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Segmenting Game
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the word that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then underneath the word, writes down each sound in...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Segmenting and Blending Words
In this activity, students will learn how to segment words. Then students will play a segmentation game that utilizes Elkonin boxes and markers.