THE FLOOR: Phonemic Awareness Games To Go

• Can your child move to the beat?

• Can he dance to music; march or clap to ‘One, Two, Three, Four--One, Two, Three, Four’?

• Then play:

Clap the (Syllable) Beats

1. Find something in the room, or out the window. (Or think of something we see in the kitchen; at the park, etc.)
   
2. Say its name, and help the child to clap out the syllables:

Which Word is Longer? Clap and see!

(This can be a tricky question for young children!)

Sev-en-up or truck?
Train or cat-er-pil-lar?

Say a Word Without a Syllable:

Ask the child to say ‘Sev-en-Up’ without the ‘up’: “Seven.”