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