Phoneme Segmentation {and a freebie}



Most of my students can stretch CVC words just fine, but they have difficulty with blends and basically any word other than the CVC’s.  I have worked hard to establish a set of activities that DO work!   However, phoneme segmentation is very hard for some students- – those with speech articulation errors, difficulty with phonological processing, and so on.  That is why this is something we work on daily in my classroom!

Phoneme Segmentation within my classroom day:

Morning Routine:  We work on stretching and blending words as a group. I give a word, the students then stretch the word and blend it back together.  It looks like this:

Teacher- -“river” 
Students:  “/r/ /i/ /v/ /er/” …..”river”

I have my students stretch each sound on their fingers as if they are counting…the students then make a fist at the end of  stretching the word and bring the fist to their chest as they blend the word back together.

Hallway:  I also access phoneme segmentation in the hallway as I am having my students go into the restroom.  I will show them a word and they will stretch and blend the word.

The little set of picture cards are what I have the students stretch.  This set of cards has a variety- – CVC words, blends, & digraphs.  The larger set the students says the word, “map,”   stretches the word, “/m/ /a/ /p/,” and then blends the word back together, “map!”

Both sets of these cards are available in the packet listed at the end of the post!

Guided Reading:  From the beginning of the school year to mid-year I have about a 5-10 minute block of time that is strictly for phonemic awareness in my guided reading groups.  However, after mid-year most of my  medium-high groups have mastered the skill and we move on to more higher level skills.  For those that have not mastered I have continued a 10 minute block of time in our daily guided reading group meet up time! 

Below are several pictures of my kiddos working on their phoneme segmentation/phonological  skills!