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Quick Look: Segmenting Phonemes

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Princess Watts-Blount: Your first word is train. Repeat.

Students: Train.

Princess Watts-Blount: All right. Let's tap it.

Students: /t/, /r/, /ā/ /n/.

Princess Watts-Blount: All right. Now do it with your pop-it.

Students: /t/, /r/, /ā/ /n/.

Princess Watts-Blount: All right. Can somebody give me the sounds in train? Yes.

Student: /t/, /r/, /ā/ /n/.

Princess Watts-Blount: How many phonemes?

Students: Four.

Princess Watts-Blount: Four. /t/, /r/, /ā/ /n/.

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Segmenting Phonemes in Spoken Words Lesson Plan

This lesson plan uses the Touch and Say and Stretch and Shrink teaching strategies to teach students how to segment phonemes in a spoken word.

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