Identifying Ending Phonemes
Use this lesson plan to explicitly teach students to identify the final sound in words.
Identifying Beginning Phonemes
This lesson plan outlines an instructional routine for explicitly teaching students to isolate the first sound in words.
Phoneme Awareness Word List
This document provides a list of words for phonemic awareness instruction, with words carefully organized by number of sounds and stop/continuant sounds.
Phoneme Identification Assessments
Use these diagnostic assessments to understand which phoneme isolation skills need instruction.
Understanding Consonant and Vowel Phonemes in English
Curious to learn more about the nature of English phonemes and their production? This handout from the Colorado Department of Education unpacks consonant and vowel sounds.
Letter Sound Articulation
Shira Naftel models and explains how phonemes are articulated in this Reading League video.
Isolating Final Phonemes with Susan Robison
Susan Robison helps her students practice isolating ending sounds, or phonemes, using a roller coaster motion to help them hear all the sounds in a word.
Phoneme Awareness: What We Now Know
Dr. Susan Brady summarizes what we know about effective phonemic awareness instruction in this webinar.
Phoneme Blending and Segmenting Diagnostic Assessment
This is a short assessment to assess students’ mastery of phoneme segmenting and blending.
Quick Look: Blending Phonemes
In this brief video, Jennifer Rogers works with her students on blending sounds into words.
Blending Phonemes with DeAngela Huggins
This video shows a short instructional routine for teaching students to blend sounds.
Blending and Segmenting Games
This Reading Rockets article provides materials and resources for several activities to teach blending and segmenting. The authors provide research that supports the use of each of these activities.
