By: Marilyn J. Adams, Barbara Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, and Terri Beeler (2004)
This article features activities designed to stimulate the development of phonemic awareness in preschool and elementary school children. The activities originally appeared in the book Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum.
Listening to sequences of sounds
From chapter 3: Listening games
Objective
To develop the memory and attentional abilities for thinking about sequences of sounds and the language for discussing them.
Materials needed
Objects that make interesting, distinctive sounds. Some examples follow:
banging on wall/table/lap
blowing blowing a whistle blowing nose clapping clicking with tongue closing purse coloring hard on paper coughing crumpling paper cutting with a knife cutting with scissors dropping (various things) drumming with fingers eating an apple folding paper hammering hopping noisy chewing |
opening window or drawer
pouring liquid ringing a bell rubbing hands together scratching sharpening a pencil slamming a book smashing crackers snapping fingers stamping stirring with teaspoon tearing paper tiptoeing turning on computer walking whistling writing on board writing with a pencil |
