Phonemic Awareness Free Printable Activity

Phonemic awareness activity, Doggie Where’s My Bone?

The research is very clear regarding the relationship between phonological/ phonemic awareness skills and later reading achievement. Children need to have an appreciation of how sounds can be put together to create words. Incorporating phonemic awareness activities into our lessons is critically important. Best of all, they really don’t need to take up a significant amount of time.

Quick and easy activities such as the Doggie, Where’s My Bone? activity are perfect for use during your small group instruction. This particular activity teaches students to recognize the position of sounds within words. You simply say a word containing 3 sounds– such as “cat”– and then a sound within the word– such as /a/. The student will place a bone on either the head, body or tail to indicate the position of the sound within the word.

Just for fun, I use small rawhide bone Phonemic Awareness Activity purchased at our local Walmart. This file also includes printable paper bones.

Sound Switch

Also contained within the download is the Sound Switch activity. For this activity, students are provided with two words (ball-bell). They are to put the bone on the portion of the dog which has the sound that is different. This is a pretty difficult task for young developing readers. So you’d want to make sure they are solid with identifying sound positions within single words first.

FREE download, Step-by-step teaching directions included!