Pronunciation Exercise: Phonemic Awareness

1. INITIAL POSITION


1. Teacher says the word (example: farm)


2. Student is asked to state the initial consonant (example: "f")


3. Teacher says the word without the initial consonant and tells student to add the initial consonant to this word (example "arm - add an "f").


4. Students says the word with the initial consonant (example: "farm").


2. FINAL POSITION


1. Teacher says the word


2. Student echoes


3. Student says word without the final consonant sound


4. Student says the words and adds the final consonant sound

Example:

Teacher says	Student replies
Say great	great
Say great without the /t/	gray
Say me	me
Add /t/ to the end	meet

3. FINAL OR MEDIAL POSITION

Teacher tells the student a sound to identify where they hear a sound and then to repeat the word emphasizing that sound. Example:
Teacher: Where do you here the /m/ in summer?
Student: In the middle. Summer.


4. BLENDING OF THE WHOLE WORD
   Students blend phonemes to produce a whole word. Teacher says word phonemes. Students repeat and then says how many sounds they hear, then they blend them into a word. Example:
   Teacher: pay
   Student: pay. "p" "ay", pay.




A. Initial Sounds	B. Final consonant sound	C. Final / medial position	D. Blending
Farm – arm Fat – at Hand – and Fox – ox Gate – ate Pin – in Bake – ake Dash – ash Meal – eal Neat – eat Cow – ow Sink – ink Bend – end Rice – ice Jam – am Sow – ow Part – art Pink – ink Land – and Open – pen Told – old Well – ell Tall - all	Cold – old Bay – bake Bee – beak Boo – boot Far – farm Die – dime For – fork Gray – grape Me – meat Say – safe See – seal She – sheet She – sheep Tie – time Moo – mood So - soap	Piano – o Pan – n Person – rs Butter – r Paper – p Lesson – s Scram – m Belong – g Above - v Frog – g Summer – m Bandage – d Lesson – s Belong –g Strike – k Lucky – k Basket - sk	2 phonemes: day pay may be fee me hi 3 phonemes: gray lace play mile grow mall initial cons, blending cry crow slid slam slob brat