RIC-6974_Phonological_awareness_skills_Book_3

PHONEME ISOLATION games and activities
• Isolate the medial sound in words
ACTIVITY 15: What’s the middle sound?
For this activity, choose simple CVC words.
Ask the children to listen for the vowel sounds they hear
in the middle of words.
Demonstrate by saying a word such as bus.
‘What sound do you hear in the middle of bus?
Repeat the word, overemphasising the sounds in the word
until the children can easily hear the medial vowel sound.
Use the following words with short vowel sounds to practise
the skill:
• nap, sack, yam, had, fat, black, cell, fed, pen, beg, wet, hid, him, tip, sit, wig, sick, job,
fog, shop, blot, Tom, grub, bud, dug, hum, run, cut, love
After the children become proficient in isolating and identifying the short vowel sounds
in words, include words with long vowel sounds such as:
• came, gale, snail, shake, whale, sweep, meat, peel, sleep, greet, dice, hide, knife, tile,
nine, boat, joke, broke, foam, rode, rude, screw, shoe, blue, tune, music
• Isolate the medial sound in words
ACTIVITY 16: Picture vowel sound sort
Re-use the picture cards on pages 94—109 for this activity. Select only those cards with
a vowel sound in the middle—sun, sock, snake, table, tooth, pig, pin, nose, net, nuts, nail,
cake, king, rock, man, moon, mug, duck, drum, goat, gate, leaf, lamp, leg, fan, baby, book,
bat, bed, bag, jug, jeep, jam, jet, zip, van, vest, vine, yolk, yak, quiz, box, fox, and fax.
Small groups of children work together to sort the
pictures into the following middle vowel groups:
• short a • l-o-n-g a
• short e • l-o-n-g e
• short i • l-o-n-g i
• short o • l-o-n-g o
• short u • l-o-n-g u
• Short a—man, lamp, bat, bag, jam, van, yak, fax
• Long a—snake, table, nail, cake, goat, gate, baby
• Short e—net, leg, bed, jet, vest;
• Long e—leaf, jeep
• Short i—pig, pin, king, zip, quiz
• Long i—vine
• Short o—sock, rock, box, fox
• Long o—nose, goat
• Short u—sun, nuts, mug, duck, drum, jug
• Long u—tooth, moon, book, yolk
R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricpublications.com.au ISBN 978-1-925698-54-1 PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILLS (Book 3) 81