http://aability.com/pagames.php
This Advance Ability website provides a link to “Phonemic Awareness Games to Play” aimed at giving teachers ideas, as well as parents ideas to try at home. According to Yopp (1992) children should learn phonemic awareness through lessons that were “playful and engaging, interactive and social, and should stimulate curiosity and experimentation with language” (2000), which is done by engaging in lessons in the form of games.
This website organizes games, with the easiest games at the top of the list. Educators can evaluate their students and decide which level (or game) to start at. Then, the educator can easily follow the “lesson plan” by going down the list. It also allows the educator to jump around to different lessons, giving them the option to structure their own lesson plan
A great selection of on-the-go games can be found under “Games to Go.” There are games a parent can play with their child during trips in a car, or any other time there is wait time. These lessons include singing songs that have rhymes with your children, like “Down By the Bay.” It also includes having your child finish your sentence with a rhyming word, like “A cat in a _____”.
It also includes games a little more advanced involving colored blocks. Children are first taught that one block equals one syllable, and that same colored blocks were the same syllable. First instance, a child would know that “sss-sss-sss” is three syllables, and all the same sound, so they would put out three green blocks. Slowly they would progress, and the educator could just go down the list.
Evaluated by Myron Hardy
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