Park Those Sounds!

Segmenting CVC Words into Phonemes in a Game

Stage of Literacy Development:

Stage 1: Beginning Literacy
Stage 2: Consolidation / Fluency

Ages:

4-7

Grade Range:

K 1st

Food Groups:

Primary:
Phonemic Awareness, Spelling
Secondary:
Letter-Sound Correspondences, Motivation for Literacy

Transcript

Teacher: Ok, so we're going to play a game that helps you hear all of the sounds in a word. So you're going to use the cars to help you sound out the word. So if we did the word mop, you would go 

Teacher and Student: /m/o/p/.

Teacher: So you might not need all the cars. So you do the word mop. Sound it out one letter at a time.

Student: /m/o/p/.

Teacher: Fantastic. Ok, let's try a different one. You sound out the word tap.

Student: /t/a/p/.

Teacher: Tap! Ok, great. Let's put all the cards back. Ok I'm going to show you one with four sounds. It'll be the word stop. /s/t/o/p. Ok, I want you to sound out the word stop.

Student: /s/t/o/p/.

Teacher: Fantastic! Ok, I'll give you a hard word with four sounds, ready? It's going to be the word past.

Student: /p/s/t/a/s/t/.

Teacher: That's such a hard one. Ok, let's do that one together, ready?

Teacher and Student: /p/a/s/t/.

Teacher: Great. Ok, now you do past.

Student: /p/a/s/t/.

Teacher: Fantastic. Ok, ready to sound out the word fast?

Student: /f/a/s/t.

Teacher: Ok, great. Let's do one more. /g/r/e/a/t/.

Student: /g/r/e/a/t.

Teacher: Perfect! You did a great job!

Activity Objective

The goal of Park Those Sounds!: Segmenting CVC Words into Phonemes in a Game is to help students listen to all of the speech sounds in words in order to build phonemic awareness and spelling skills. This teacher uses a game format with her students to generate motivation and enjoyment.

Quick Tips

Additional Comments:

- You can ask students to write down these words as they go to help them develop their writing and spelling skills. Think about covering-up the word they just sounded out to encourage them to spell using the sounds they just heard.
- This teacher uses cars but you can change the manipulatives to trains or just about any other manipulative pertaining to your students' interests. This will make the game feel more welcoming and fun.