Lesson Plan – Phoneme Addition

Add It On                             s + top = stop

        Like the activity, “Take It Away”, this oral activity can be practiced with students at almost any time. 

Objective:   To provide students with the opportunity to practice the

                   task of phoneme addition.

Materials:    Word Lists

                   Class Puppet (optional)

Activity:      Tell the children to say a word.  Ask them to say the word

                   again, but this time they are to add a phoneme.

                   For example:

                   Teacher:        “Say top.”

                   Students:       “Top”

                   Teacher         “What word do you have if you add /s/ to

                                        The beginning of top?”

                   Students:        “Stop.” 

Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Framework Connection

7.2: 

§         Understand that a sound is a phoneme, or one distinct sound;

§         Identify the initial, medial, and final sounds of a word;

§         Blend sounds to make words.

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