Tools for Building Phonological Awareness: #1 – Rhyming Sets

Ultimate Literacy Phonological Phonemic Awareness Tool #1 Rhyming Words and Word Families

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From over 33 years of experience as a speech-language pathologist, this resource brings together the best strategies, tools, tips and tricks that I have to support children with speech sounds.

Contents:

• 159 different word families for a total of 1272 Rhyming Words
• Suggestions for Games and Activities
• Ultimate Sound Cues to add meaning and boost learning
• Teaching Principles

Benefits:

Phonemic Awareness, also called Phonological Awareness, is a crucial foundational skill for early reading and spelling skills. Children need to be able to recognize and manipulate sounds to be successful at early literacy. Parents, teachers and therapists can help children learn these skills and impact a child’s reading, writing, and overall academic success.

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, ASHA, recognizes the importance of phonemic skills for both speech sound development and early literacy. Speech Therapists are able to work on phonemic awareness in unique ways.

Seven Essential Skills for Phonemic Awareness:

• Recognize and Produce Rhymes
• Blend Sounds Together
• Break Words Apart into Syllables and Sounds
• Deletion – Take Syllables/Sounds Out of Words
• Recognize Sounds in Different Positions of Words
• Manipulate Sounds in Words to Change One Word to Another
• Sound Letter Correspondence – Knowing what Sounds Letters Make

The Ultimate Literacy program provides 3 sets of tools: Rhyming Sets / Word Families, Puzzle Words and Minimal Pairs. These are fun and effective materials for working on all of the essential skills. Each tool is provided in a separate volume. This volume is Rhyming Sets / Word Families.

To add more meaning, each sound in every practice word is paired with my Ultimate Speech Sound Cues. This pairs a Picture Symbol, a Label and a Hand Gesture for each sound in English.

Sound Cues provide extra information that helps children understand what sound each letter makes, what sounds make up words and how to manipulate sounds in words. English is confusing, sound cues help.

The Picture Symbols and the sounds they represent are included with each set of tools. The full Speech Sound Cues Program, including the hand gestures for each sound and more information can be downloaded for free on my website at: Ultimate Sound Cues

Tool #1 Rhyming Sets / Word Families

Sample Including TOC, Word Lists, Game Ideas and Sound Cues

Rhyming is the foundation of phonological awareness. You need to be able to listen to and discriminate sounds to be able to do the more advanced skills. Literacy is built on listening and speaking.

In addition to helping with recognizing and producing rhymes, rhyming sets and word families are a great tool to learn how to manipulate sounds in words to change one word to another.

I hope you find them helpful.

Please let me know if you have any questions. You can reach me at SLP@Speech-TherapyAtHome.com

Garth Schindel SLPatHome