How to Teach Phonemic Awareness in Kindergarten, 1st, & 2nd Grade | Phonemic Awareness Activities

Wondering how to teach phonemic awareness in kindergarten, first, or second grade? In this video, I share phonemic awareness activities for phoneme isolation, phoneme blending, phoneme segmenting, phoneme addition, phoneme deletion, and phoneme substitution!

If you happen to use any of these ideas at home or in your classroom, leave a comment below and let me know how they go! :) Also, if you share any of the games from Susan's Sunday Spotlight, please tag me on Instagram @susanjonesteaching so I can see!! You can also use the hashtag: #susanssundayspotlight

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[kendraburmester]

I am a student teacher in Kindergarten thanks for the tips! Phonemic awareness is tricky to teach.

[keepingitrealsimple]

This video IS EVERYTHING!!! Keep up the awesome work. I just discovered you so I will be watching your other videos during this week.

[tiny.terrorist.negotiator]

Im a homeschooling mom of a 1st grader these videos are so so amazing and helpful!!!! Your time unit has been a god send!

[daniamolina]

Thank you so much! I am a new teacher and I have been assigned to first grade. My district hired teachers to help first graders with their reading skills since most of our students have been on distance learning and have not had sufficient explicit reading instruction. Your videos are SO helpful! Thank you!

[sararipley]

I plan on taking the TexES STR exam and this is really helpful for when I have to to the CRQ. You really break the information down. I look forward to more videos. Thank you.

[lynnelucas]

You are AMAZING, Susan. I absolutely love your videos each week. THANK YOU!

[RebeccaMcGrail]

looking to start teaching Kinder soon. I've only taught 3-5th so I really appreciate the specific activities you discuss :)

[nabhisham]

i just came across your videos. They are amazing. can't wait to go through them all

[moniquemontoute]

This comment is unrelated to the content, but the changing of your background was a subtle but effective tactic (if intentional lol). Fresh new visual stimuli for each phonemic strategy you presented. Well delivered :)

[joanroman]

I love the phoneme matching activity. I can't wait to try this with my kinder kiddos.

[sarahlantto]

Wonderful!!! I am a montessori teacher and we do a lot of this stuff, but I really liked that scaffolding chart so I can know kind of how to build upon the skills we have gone through! Great video

[lourdessantos]

Hi, Ms. Susan. Thank you for sharing. Teacher des here, from the Philippines.

[kathywagner]

Love this video! SO INFORMATIVE! We use Michael Heggerty in our district. I do these activities daily with my students! Awesome way to explain the importance of daily practice for firsties. Love the article, too! Thanks Susan! :) <3

[Danielle-phls]

Such a great video with realistic examples! Thank you!

[pamelasantamaria]

Love this video! I'm a Panamanian English Teacher and I'd like to ask u for some tips to start teaching my kiddos how to read in English.

[peacemark]

Fantastic video indeed, I need video on phonemic awareness too and jolly phonics. A job well done.

[hahid]

Thank you for sharing your experience. God bless you

[sarahbanda]

❤ Super helpful. I homeschool & I am struggling with my youngest who has several speech difficulties. He deletes the last letter sound & duplicates the first sound making it really hard to understand what he is saying. (Gee = green, Bra-bur = brother or Kis-kas = Christmas) Speech therapy has helped some but they ask for 3 letter words to be repeated. He tried but he can’t say “mat” he says “mata” or nap becomes napa. I’m noticing he cannot blend sounds even after we spent the whole TK school year learning all the sounds of the alphabet 2X. I have seen good improvement. At the start of the year he didn’t know his ABCs and skipped 16 when counting now he knows the alphabet and a good number of letter sounds and counts to 135. So he is learning but no where near reading.

I didn’t know there were levels to teaching blending or that seperating letter sounds was the 1st step to teach before blending. 😅 I never had to do this with my oldest who self taught himself to read before 5. I thought that was the norm. Kids love watching letter sound videos and catch on quick. But I am really struggling to teach a kid how to read when he literally tells me “end sounds are not important” and then gets angry & frustrated when no one understands him. We try so hard to figure out what he is saying. I think if I start teaching him blending 2 letter words then 3 letter words won’t be so hard in speech therapy but I will try this letter separation 1st. Thank you!

[breehill]

Hello! New subscriber. I found this incredibly helpful. Im currently studying to take my Science of Teaching Reading exam here in Texas. so happy your channel popped up in my feed.