3.1.1 Practice and Learn

This next learning activity will give you the chance to practice identifying beginning blends, ending blends, and vowel diphthongs. We want you to feel confident that you can identify these types of phonemes. That will help you effectively choose words that your students will work with during your phoneme awareness instruction. 

If possible, find a colleague or partner to do these exercises with.

Here’s what to do:

First, say each of the words in the word bank out loud slowly so that you can hear each phoneme separately. Then answer the following questions that will help you think about these words from simple to complex.

On the next page you’ll complete an ungraded knowledge check to make sure you understand how to choose appropriate words for your phoneme awareness activities.