This resource can be initially used in the first year of school after basic letter-sound relationships have been established. It provides plenty of opportunities for young learners to master two of the most important phonemic awareness tasks: sound (phoneme) segmenting and sound (phoneme) blending.YOU RECEIVE the contents below as an immediate download when payment is completed.WHAT IS INCLUDED ON SOUND SEGMENTER ? Sound Segmenter is divided into four units, each increasing in level of difficulty. (This updated Version 3 is bigger and better than previous versions. Units Two and Four are divided into a further six subunits.)Note that for each unit and subunit) , there are three components: printable fold-over cards, a Record of Sound and a PowerPoint TM slideshow. Extra “Circle strips” are also provided and are required for the fold-over card activities.*Unit One focuses on regular consonant-vowel-consonant words. It is perfect for students who have established basic sound-letter links including the five short vowels a-e-i-o-u. There are also a couple of vowel-consonant-consonant words (“act” and “old”) in the slideshow to challenge the young learner.43 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow72 fold-over cards and a wordlistUnit Two focuses on regular consonant-vowel-consonant words that include consonant digraphs. Only the short vowel sounds of a-e-i-o-u are included.It is divided into two subunits. Unit 2:1ck ff ll ss zz20 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow30 fold-over cards and a wordlistUnit 2:2 sh, th, ch, ng18 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow18 fold-over cards and a wordlistUnit Three focuses on blends – both initial and final blends.Consonant digraphs covered in Unit 2 may also be included.20 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow30 fold-over cards and a wordlistUnit Four focuses on common vowel digraphs. There are four subunits.Consonant digraphs and consonant blends are included. Note that some vowel digraphs are repeated. This is because they are representing different sounds (for example, ow (as in mow) and ow (as in cow).)Unit 4: 1 ai ay ee ea oo20 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow40 fold-over cards and a wordlistUnit 4:2 ow oa ow ou oy oi20 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow40 fold-over cards and a wordlistUnit 4:3 ar ir er ur (w)or20 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow30 fold-over cards and a wordlistUnit 4:4 or aw (w)ar ew ou20 pictures/words on a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow26 fold-over cards and a wordlistThis resource is also available as a downloadable version (you will need to source your own glass pebbles and whiteboard marker).
