Description

Phonemic awareness is an important skill for readers and writers. It’s the ability to hear individual sounds in words. And when learners can hear each sound, they begin to be able to isolate individual sounds, separate the sounds, and blend the sounds.

Beginning Sounds Phonemic Awareness Cards

The goal with these beginning sounds phonemic awareness cards is to have learners listen for and identify the SOUND(S) they hear, not necessarily give the letter name(s). For example, instead of saying that spoon starts with s–p, we want learners to isolate and make the actual sounds of s & p–> /s/-/p/.

It doesn’t hurt if learners also identify the letter names, but this can prove to be rather difficult with words like knife {sounds like n} or wheelbarrow {can sound like just a w}.

For each card, just read the prompt at the top, name each picture, then ask the learner for the beginning sound(s).

Included in this pack are phonemic awareness cards for:

Single Initial Consonant & Vowel Sounds
Single Initial Consonant & Vowel Sounds
L-Blends
R-Blends
S-Blends
Other Blends (tw & qu)
Digraphs
Consonant Clusters
PLUS Blackline Cards for all skills (pp. 52-99)

Grab our S-Blends Sample HERE.

The cards can be printed so the words for each picture are on the back. To do this, be sure to open the file with the free, updated Adobe Reader. Once open, click “print on both sides of paper”, making sure you click “flip on the long edge.” If you miss this step, the answers will be upside down.