Six silly chicks sit and fish with big strings and sticks. Help young readers develop the phonemic awareness skills needed to detect the sound structure of words and the vowel sounds in words with an exercise that asks them to identify and highlight the /i/ sound in a list of 39 words. 

Concepts

/i/ sounds, phonemic awareness, beginning reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Some learners with dyslexia benefit from reading materials printed in dark brown ink on beige paper rather than the stark black ink on white paper
• Laminate the cards to permit reuse
• To reduce stress, introduce only a few words at one time

 

Classroom Considerations

• The exercise is the seventh in a series of 16 resources designed to develop the awareness skills needed to detect the vowel sounds in words 
• Although designed specifically for learners with dyslexia, the cards may be used to teach phonemic awareness to all those learning to read

Pros

• A scrabble game featuring the /i/ sound is attached to the resource
• Each card in the series features only one vowel sound and all the cards feature the same type face

Cons

• None

Common Core

RF.K.2.a RF.1.2.a