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.
Segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words
Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
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
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
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.