Phonemic Based Activities

Phonemic Based Approach

What is phonemic awareness?

• The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in spoken words and understanding that spoken words are made up of speech sound sequences. (Yopp, 1992)

Treatment Approaches

• Meta-phonological 
• PACT
• Multiple Oppositions
• Minimal Pairs
• Cycles

Phonemic-Based Activities 

Rhyming activities

• Down by the Bay
• Nursery Rhymes
• Rhyming Wheel

Here is an example of a lesson plan for rhyming activities:
(This could be used with the minimal pairs approach)

Blending/Segmenting activities

• Secret Code
• Robot Talk
• Sound Blending Songs:

If you think you know this word, shout it out!
If you think you know this word, shout it out!
If you think you know this word,
Then tell me what you've heard,
If you think you know this word, shout it out!

Here's the word /k/ /a/ /t/.

Here is an example of a lesson plan for blending words:

*Language based skills can be accessed through exposure to rhyming activities, nursery rhymes, games, and songs.

*Phonemic awareness is a predictor of reading success