“Hop to the door, say ‘Boo!”, then walk 3 steps back.” The rest of the class also listens to the instructions and gives thumbs up or down to judge how the student performed. Teacher says the complete instructions once and the student has to perform, e.g. Another child is chosen to go somewhere else in the room and make a noise, the listener has to describe where they are in the room and how they’re making the noise. Students sit in a circle, one child is chosen to be the listener. This is getting them ready to listen to phonemes in words and that ability to manipulate and identify each phoneme. Repeat a sequence of sounds but warn them that one sound is going to be missing – they identify the missing sound. Move to 3 sounds that they identify in order. They have to identify in the correct order.
Students listen (with closed eyes) for any sounds they can hear for a few minutes. The best part about these listening activities is they are heaps of fun and students won’t even feel like they are being tested! Listening to Sounds Here are some great listening activities that you can do with your early years students at the beginning of the year to get an idea as to how well they are listening. And, the ability to listen is also an important building block of phonemic awareness.
We’ve written about the importance of explicitly teaching speaking and listening skills to children before in our blog – 10 Activities for Developing the Skills of Speaking and Listening. Remember, phonemes are the speech sounds made in the English language. Phonemic awareness is 100% auditory and it is all about the speech sounds, whereas phonics is more about the graphemes and the letters on the page.Īs you read through this blog you will notice that each activity suggested is either about a child’s listening skills and/or phoneme manipulation. It’s important to point out that the terms phonics and phonemic awareness are not the same.
However, a child’s phonemic awareness can often get overlooked, or a presumption made that they already have this awareness. The school year goes by so quickly that starting the reading and spelling journey is a teacher’s number one priority. When young children begin formal schooling, it can be super easy to jump straight into the learning of graphemes and phonics.
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