Lesson Plan – Phoneme Identity  

Find Your Partners  

        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 help students recognize the same sounds in different

                   words.

Materials:    Picture cards of objects with which students are familiar.

                   Each card must have a match that begins, ends, or has the

                   same sound in the medial position.

Activity:    Decide the targeted position of the sounds.  Provide

                   students with the appropriate cards.  When given the

                   signal, students circulate and find a classmate whose card

                   shares the sound in the targeted position.  Redistribute

                   the cards.  Repeat the activity.

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.

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