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RIC-6976 Phonological awareness skills Book 5 p1-23

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PHONEME SEGMENTATION GAMES AND ACTIVITIES<br />

• Count the separate sounds in words<br />

ACTIVITY <strong>23</strong>: Segmenting circle<br />

The children will need a dice, the game board on page 55 and one counter each to<br />

play this game. This game can be played with between 2 and 5 players. One child will<br />

need to take on the role of judge.<br />

The children take turns to roll a dice to see who starts. (The child with the largest<br />

number goes first.) The child names the first picture, segments the phonemes in the<br />

word and says how many sounds there are.<br />

If correct, the child places their counter to<br />

mark their position. For each consecutive<br />

correct answer, players move forward with the<br />

aim to get to the finish.<br />

Enlarge the game board to a more<br />

appropriate size if desired, photocopy or glue<br />

onto cardboard and laminate for durability.<br />

A blank Segmenting circle game board is also<br />

provided on page 56 so that teachers can<br />

create their own games.<br />

NOTE: The words depicted in the images on page 55 are<br />

more challenging. They include: rake (3), sack (3), chain (3),<br />

wheel (3), brush (4), shark (3), nail (3), broom (4), goat (3),<br />

balloon (5), knife (3), crown (4), pillow (4), chest (4), spoon (4).<br />

START START<br />

and and<br />

FINISH FINISH<br />

How<br />

many<br />

sounds<br />

?<br />

• Segment for spelling<br />

ACTIVITY 24: Sound spelling<br />

This segmenting activity should only be used when the children have sound–letter<br />

correspondence and are ready to try to ‘spell’ their own words.<br />

You will need large sheets of paper/cardboard/chart paper or a whiteboard and a<br />

marker; and paper and pencils or mini whiteboards for the children.<br />

This is a whole class activity.<br />

Select a word and, with the children, segment it into phonemes.<br />

Use the large sheet of paper/cardboard/chart paper to demonstrate how to write the<br />

word phonetically. This is invented spelling so will be a close approximation rather<br />

than the correct spelling.<br />

A word like ‘house’, for example, may be<br />

written phonetically as /h/ /ow/ /s/—and<br />

while this is not the correct spelling,<br />

this method leads the children towards<br />

segmenting for spelling.<br />

Give the children some words of their<br />

own to try to write.<br />

www.ricpublications.com.au ISBN 978-1-925698-56-5 PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILLS (<strong>Book</strong> 5) 15

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