Phonemic Awareness

Overhead

Goal

Students will practice phonemic awareness activities to notice, think about, and

work with sounds in spoken language.

Basic Center

Materials

  • Overhead projector
  • Overhead transparencies
  • Various pictures or photographs

Preparation

Teacher will:

  • Find pictures that have many items to label (magazine clippings, workbook pages, photographs).
  • Duplicate pictures onto overhead transparencies.
  • Organize transparencies into folders, sheet protectors, or binders.
  • Locate an accessible area of the classroom to place the overhead in order to project the image.
  • Instruct, model and practice with students how to operate the overhead projector.
  • Demonstrate for students how to isolate, identify, or segment phonemes using overhead pictures.

Procedures

Students will:

  • Choose pictures from folders, sheet protectors, or binders to place on the overhead projector.
  • Practice a variety of phoneme skills at the overhead center.

Beyond the Basic Center

Additional Center Ideas:

  1. Make overhead pictures of students in your class. Teach students to substitute one phoneme for another to make a new name. Demonstrate how to orally chant the names with a partner. (Linda, Binda, Finda, Minda)
  2. Devise a game to practice phoneme categorization called “Odd Sound OUT!” Use old workbook pictures or computer clip art and make overhead transparencies that have 6-9 pictures per page. Cut pictures apart and put them in a file box or baggie. Students play this game in pairs. One student chooses four pictures from the box or baggie, three of which have the same beginning sound and one that does not begin the same. The student lays the pictures on the overhead and says the name (bear, banana, cat, ball). The other student must tell which picture is the “Odd Sound OUT!”
  3. The teacher tape-records many words in which the phonemes have been separated (/c/ /a/ /t/). Students listen to the sequence of separately spoken phonemes and combine the phonemes to form a word. Provide pictures representing the tape-recorded words. Students find the corresponding picture, place it on the overhead and blend the phonemes to say the word. Note: This center can use the same pictures to segment phonemes. Students put a picture on the overhead, say the name of the picture, segment the phonemes and count the number of sounds in the word. Next, they place the correct number of unifix cubes or counters on the overhead under the picture.
  4. Using overhead pictures from content area studies, students sort the pictures according to the number of syllables.
  5. Prepare transparencies with nursery rhyme pictures. Students select an overhead and recite the nursery rhyme.

Additional Resources

Marzollo, J. I Spy Spooky Night: A Book of Pictures in Riddles. Scholastic Inc.,

  1. ISBN 0590481371

Marzollo, J. I Spy Treasure Hunt. Scholastic Inc., 1999. ISBN 0439042445

Marzollo, J. I Spy: Year-Round Challenge. Scholastic Inc., 2001.

ISBN 0439316340

Moroney, T. A Classic Treasury of Nursery Songs & Rhymes. Barnes & Noble Books, 2001. ISBN 076072380X

Opie, I. Here Comes Mother Goose. Candlewick Press, 1999. ISBN 0763606839

Stevens, J. and Crummel, S. And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon. Harcourt,

  1. ISBN 0152022988

Taback, S. This is the House That Jack Built. Penguin Publishers, 2002.

ISBN 0399234888

Yolen, J. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Scholastic, Inc., 2000.

ISBN 0590316818