Kindergarten Fun

What a fun day working with these kindergartners on phonemic awareness and phonics!  This group of students needed extra help hearing the sounds in words.  As part of their lesson, we stretched the sounds with rubber bands and used elkonin boxes to help our students.  These elkonin boxes also provided a great formative assessment on who could hear the sounds.  It was so helpful in planning our next steps for the lesson.  

When our group was ready, we practiced reading and writing short u words. These students were so eager to learn and enjoyed reading, writing, and talking to each other!

What strategies have you used to help students with phonemic awareness?  Leave a comment below so that we can all learn from each other!