The sentences from the morning message can be cut so that each sentence is on its own strip. These simple sentences can be cut apart into words, emphasizing the word boundaries for each word. Students can work together in pairs or alone to re-create the morning message sentence. Syllable Awareness Syllable awareness activities are a bit more challenging. Once students have an understanding of sentences and words, it is important for them to learn that words are made of smaller bits, namely, syllables.
Syllable awareness brings the child to a better understanding of speech sound patterns.
The following activities can provide opportunities to develop syllable awareness. Ask each child to clap and count the number of syllables in their name. Move tokens to represent the number of syllables heard in a word. All of the children are to stand in a circle. The king issues an order, pausing between syllables.