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Segment and Squash Cards

Segment and Squash Cards
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Description

These Segment and Squash cards are the perfect way for your students to build their phonemic awareness and consolidate their segmenting skills as they listen to individual phonemes in words.

The use of playdough also adds a fun, fine motor skill element to this literacy rotation.

Students can check their segmenting using the included answer keys.
 

Suitable for
  • Fast Finishers
  • Relief Teachers
Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
Curriculum Codes

AC9E1LY09 9

Segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)

AC9E1LY12 9

Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound

ACELA1822 8.4

Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words

ACELA1459 8.4

Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound

EN1-4A old

Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

EN1-PHOKW-01 new

Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts

VCELA203

Identify the separate phonemes in consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of syllables

VCELA183

Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound, and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound

Differentiation

EXTENSIONS

Ask students to try writing the word on a mini whiteboard or in their books by including the number of phonemes shown on the card.
 

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