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Free phonemic awareness activity

by Anna G April 15, 2019 17 Comments

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Looking for something to help learners distinguish beginning sounds? Try this free phonemic awareness activity!

A reader asked for a set of clip cards to help her students distinguish beginning sounds.

She asked for a set of pictures – three of which start with the same sound, and one that doesn’t.

In answer to her request, I created this phonemic awareness activity.

The clip cards come in two different levels.

  • Level 1 – Three pictures begin with the same sound – and the fourth picture has a beginning sound that is quite different.
  • Level 2 – Three pictures begin with the same sound – and the fourth picture has a beginning sound that is quite similar to the first one.

In the above level 1 example, you have the words horse, ax, astronaut, apple.

The /h/ sound is easily distinguishable from the sound /ฤƒ/.

This is a level 2 card.ย Astronaut, alligator, egg, apple.

The short vowel sounds /ฤƒ/ and /ฤ•/ are made in the same part of the mouth, making this card more difficult.

This is a level 2 card because the /t/ and /d/ sounds are made in the same part of the mouth. (The fancy phrase for that is “point of articulation.”)

My daughter (age 5) is strong with beginning sounds, so I started right away with the level 2 cards.

She named each picture and then clipped the picture whose beginning sound was different.

She had no problems at all until she got to this one. Since she struggles to properly articulate the /r/ and /l/ sounds, she couldn’t hear the difference.

Since my daughter knows all her letters and sounds, these cards were simple review/reinforcement.

They’re best for children who are still learning to match sounds to their corresponding letters.

I hope your learners enjoy these!

Want to learn more about phonemic awareness?

In this guidebook you will learn:

-What phonological and phonemic awareness are
-How to build an understanding of word
-How to help children understand syllables
-How to build rhyming skills
-How to develop phonemic awareness

© 2019, Anna G. All rights reserved.

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Comments

  1. Amanda Reynolds says

    April 23, 2019 at 7:57 am

    These are perfect! So many of my kids struggle with identifying the one that doesn’t belong. They apparently never watched Seseame Street.

    Reply
    • Anna G says

      April 23, 2019 at 10:23 am

      Lol! I’m glad you can use this, Amanda!

      Reply
  2. Gaye says

    April 23, 2019 at 9:38 am

    Thank you for making the black and white version!

    Reply
    • Anna G says

      April 23, 2019 at 10:23 am

      You’re welcome, Gaye! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  3. Neroshni says

    April 23, 2019 at 11:26 am

    Really good thank you

    Reply
  4. Kusum Jethwa says

    April 23, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    Thank you so much Anna !

    Reply
  5. Cathy says

    April 23, 2019 at 1:46 pm

    These are perfect! This is one of the skills tested by the program my district uses. I find students need to have mental pictures to help them with this activity. Then we can move them into words only. I will definitely use these cards to scaffold this skill and then move them into words only. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Anna G says

      April 27, 2019 at 8:48 am

      I’m glad you like this, Cathy!

      Reply
  6. Carol says

    April 23, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    Thank you! Level 2 has a card with a larger queen and a smaller queen…is this an error?

    Reply
    • Anna G says

      April 26, 2019 at 1:52 pm

      Thanks for catching that, Carol! Fixed it. ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  7. Joyce Smith says

    April 23, 2019 at 8:33 pm

    Anna, thank you so much for sharing so many of your activities for free . I have never been disappointed and you have filled my reading stations and math stations with fun activities for my title one students. Your generous spirit is appreciated!

    Reply
    • Anna G says

      April 26, 2019 at 1:52 pm

      Thank you so much for your kind words, Joyce!

      Reply
  8. Lydya says

    May 8, 2019 at 9:33 am

    Thank you so much Anna for sharing your activities with us. It has helped me in so many ways and most importantly are my little angles whom have gained more daily through fun activities. Your kind and warm heart is appreciated.

    Reply
  9. Melissa says

    September 8, 2019 at 3:22 pm

    I would love this free phonemic awareness activity, but I can’t get it to work.

    Reply
    • Kate Dowling says

      October 1, 2019 at 9:35 pm

      Hi Melissa!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. What happens when you click the green download box that says, “CLICK HERE TO GET THE FREE PRINTABLE”? When I clicked it, it took about 5-10 seconds to load. Please give it another try! Thanks.

      Reply
      • Lois says

        November 23, 2019 at 2:19 am

        Yes you are right . Please can you also add how to use all the activities to the downloads. I know you add it but if it could part 8f the download, I will be happy.

        Reply
        • Anna G says

          November 24, 2019 at 5:50 am

          At this point I don’t have plans to do that for the main site, but with the newer printables I try to link to the related blog post in the download. ๐Ÿ™‚

          Reply

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