Teacher introduces students to a variety of rhyming books. Given words orally, student sorts rhyming words into families. Teacher models and students respond to clapping or tapping syllables in multisyllable words. Students demonstrate understanding of syllabication by counting syllables with blocks. Given pictures or orally presented words students produce first and last sounds they hear.
Teacher says a word with each phoneme separated.
Students blend the phonemes together and say the word. Teacher provides a word and the student says the word with each phoneme isolated. Students produce middle sound in given words. Use blocks to segment phonemes in CVC word, students say sounds randomly when asked by the teacher. Teacher provides words for student to segment.