Word/Sentence Awareness Resources

Right Track Reading Speech Language Therapy  Advance Ability Free Reading Miriam Trehearne

You can help your child or student develop phonemic awareness with the following simple activities. These phonemic awareness activities directly teach students to identify, distinguish, segment, blend and manipulate sounds. These activities can be conducted with individual children or groups of students.  The activities are aimed at developing opportunities for metalinguistic discovery, with the aim of encouraging the child to think about, and talk about language, especially at a phonological (speech sound) level. After more than 30 years of research sponsored around the country by the National Institutes of Health, we know that there is a set of listening skills, Phonemic Awareness, that predicts who will be successful in learning to read. The objective of the Phonological Awareness sequence of activities is to teach students to identify and manipulate the sounds in spoken words. Phonological Awareness ideas from Miriam Trehearne.

 This is a page created by Christina Aronen. Students cut words and sort them in order to make readable sentences. Words are glued into boxes and then read. The second sheet gives a space to re-read the sentence and then draw a picture about it as a means of checking for comprehension.

Do you have students who know their sight words? Are they starting to read simple sentences? Then this is the perfect activity for them to do during center time! This activity can be used for writing or word work centers. It can be easily differentiated for students who are sounding out words to students who are still using picture clues. 

Your kindergarten and first grade students will enjoy using this set of 18 word and punctuation cards to build sentences. there are 2 levels of difficulty: 

* Level One: students construct sentences with models provided

* Level Two: students create their own sentences and write them on the included recording sheet

Your K-1 students will enjoy using these cards to build sentences about something that intrigues and excites them...big rigs! In addition to 22 word and punctuation cards, this set includes activities for differentiation at 2 levels!