Phonemic Awareness

Experts are raving about this "must-have" resource for primary teachers that includes dozens of fun activities to help children listen to language and play with sounds. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles (picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives) is included. 128 pages.

Phonological Awareness and Beginning Phonics Program
Grades Pre K –1

The Sounds Sensible® kit offers structured, sequential, hands-on instruction to develop phonological awareness and beginning phonics skills. Its Orton-Gillingham philosophy makes Sounds Sensible®uniquely effective as part of an intervention, prevention or inclusion reading program.

Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners’ preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness — now known to be an important step to a child’s early reading acquisition — this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings.

For helping kindergartners and first graders who are having difficulty on their early literacy skills, Road to the Code is a successful, 11-week program for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Developmentally sequenced, each of the 44 15-20-minute lessons features three activities — Say-It-and-Move-It, Letter Name and Sound Instruction, and Phonological Awareness Practice — that give students repeated opportunities to practice and enhance their beginning reading and spelling abilities. Road to the Code is backed by more than 10 years of study in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms.

Detailed scripted instructions and reproducible materials — such as Alphabet Picture and Sound Bingo cards — make this program easy for teachers to use. Teachers have the flexibility to work with students individually or in small groups and may adjust the amount of time it takes for a student to complete the program. With these proven phonological awareness activities, educators can confidently intervene before children have a chance to fail.

This resource will help students learn how to analyze and apply the 5 levels of phonemic awareness (rhythm and rhyme, parts of a word, sequence of sounds, separation of sounds and manipulation of sounds) in isolation before applying the levels to written language. Each easy-to-prepare activity is presented pictorially for children to follow as well as in written form. 144 pages.

Teach and practice important phonemic awareness and emergent reading skills with the help of these simple puppet patterns! Includes patterns to make paperbag puppets for each letter of the alphabet in addition to several blends and digraphs. Young children love making these creative, cute puppets and learning each letter's distinctive sound. With the use of puppets, children will be motivated to practice phonemic skills both at school and home. 48 pages.

Grades PreK-1

Cook up early literacy skills! Familiar-looking cans and their corresponding contents reinforce each letter of the alphabet.

• Features a can for every letter, each holding an uppercase and lowercase letter plus 5 object cards featuring real–life photos on one side and word labels on the reverse
• Supports alphabet awareness, letter sounds, and recognition of letter shapes
• Builds early vocabulary, oral language, sorting and fine motor skills
• Includes 130 die–cut photo cards, 52 color–coded letters (red vowels, blue consonants), and 26 durable cardboard cans with lids
• Activity Guide includes interventions
• Cans measure 3" in diameter x 4.25"H

A high-energy introduction to letters, sounds, alphabetical order and word building. Activity Guide includes 8 different kinesthetic games! Great for individual, small-group or whole-class play. Includes 4.5' square vinyl alphabet mat, 5 inflatable cubes illustrated with familiar objects that start with different letters, and game markers. 1+ players.