Lesson Plan – Phoneme
Segmentation
Bag Game
This lesson plan was developed by Hallie Kay Yopp and Ruth Helen Yopp.
It appears in The Reading Teacher, 54 (2) October, 2000.
Objective:
To provide students with the opportunity to practice
segmenting the phonemes in words.
Materials:
A large box
Small plastic bags that can be sealed.
Each plastic bag contains an object and unifix cubes that
are connected that represent the number of phonemes in
the name of the object.
Activity:
Place the bags of objects and cubes in the
large box. A
student reaches into the box and chooses a bag.
The
student removes the object and cubes from the bag and
says the name of the object. The
student then breaks
apart the cubes as he or she pronounces each sound.
For
example, if a child chooses a bag with a toy pig, he or she
would say, “This is a pig.” Then
holding the connected
cubes, the student would break the cubes apart one by
one while saying /p/ /i/ /g/.
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.