Sound Circles
Sorting Objects to Build Phonemic Awareness (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyAges:
4-6
Grade Range:
PreK KFood Groups:
Primary: Phonemic Awareness, Letter-Sounds & Phonics
Transcript
This is our Sound Sort. Basically, the children create sound circles with pipe cleaner, and then they sort our sound tubs. Here we've got the /s/ and /k/ sounds. We have a snake, a spider, and a sandwich in the /s/ circle. We have a car and crackers in the /k/ circle. An interesting aside, when the children are choosing objects to go in either circle, often they'll put the cereal in the /s/ circle.
Activity Objective
The goal of Sound Circles: Sorting Objects to Build Phonemic Awareness (Virtual Tour) is to provide students with an opportunity to play with the individual sounds in spoken words through a sorting activity.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Have the students create circles or other 2-dimensional shapes using pipe cleaners. - Identify each object while modeling the activity so that the name of the object is clear. - As an extension activity have students sort middle and final consonant sounds.
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