PR-6216IRE Reading For Success - Book 1

Phonemic awareness
Phoneme identity – 1
Phoneme identity activities require pupils to identify similar sounds in different words. For example,
pupils should recognise that /s/ is the beginning sound in both sun and safe.
Alphabet books
Excellent resources for practising phoneme identity are alphabet books. Books such as Graeme Base’s
Animalia, or Jane E Bayer’s A, My name is Alice provide pupils with many opportunities on each page to
see pictures and hear words beginning with the same sound. Have pupils name all of the pictures they
can on each page that begin with the targeted sounds. A list of excellent alphabet books is suggested
below.
• Bancroft, Bronwyn. W is for wombat. Little Hare Books, 2009.
• Bancroft, Bronwyn. Possum and wattle: My big book of Australian words. Little Hare Books, 2009.
• Russell, Elaine. A is for aunty. ABC Books, 2000.
• Scillian, Devin. D is for Down Under. Sleeping Bear Press, 2010.
An extension of the activity above for pupils who are ready and capable is to challenge them to identify
the ending sound of each word.
Row, row, row your boat
Sing the following song to the tune of Row, row, row your boat. Substitute the lines below so pupils can
practise identifying a variety of initial sounds.
Substitute the lines below for the italicised line above:
Ant and axe and apple, too.
Bat and ball and body, too.
Cut and car and curly, too.
Did and dot and dog, too.
Egg and elf and elbow, too.
Far and fat and feather, too.
Good and goose and garden, too.
Hen and harp and happy, too.
In and itch and igloo, too.
Jam and jug and jungle, too.
Kid and kite and kitty, too.
Log and lamb and laundry, too.
Man and mice and money, too.
What sound is the same, in all of these words?
Fun and fan and father, too.
What’s the sound you heard?
Net and not and nursery, too.
On and off and oxen, too.
Pup and pen and pencil, too.
Quit and queen and quiet, too.
Run and rat and rose, too.
Viewing sample
Sun and sand and sorry, too.
Top and tap and tummy, too.
Up and under and uncle, too.
Van and vet and vacuum, too.
Wet and wag and welcome, too.
Box and axe and jacks, too. (Ending sounds are listed here)
Yak and yarn and yoyo, too.
Zip and zoo and zebra, too.
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