Sound Spy Sheets

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Here’s a fun, research-backed way to build blending and phonemic awareness skills while keeping students actively engaged. 

You can use this one activity in multiple ways to target key foundational skills:

• Isolate, segment, and blend sounds: Students can identify beginning sounds (Find a picture that starts with /m/), segment words like dog into individual phonemes, or blend sounds like /p/ /o/ /t/ to match and cover the correct picture. This helps strengthen the connection between sounds and words.
• Manipulate sounds within words: Students can practice rhyming, substitute sounds (pot → hot), or delete sounds (spin → pin). These tasks build flexibility with sounds and deepen their understanding of how words work.
• Strengthen phonemic awareness through comparison and sorting: Have students categorize words by sound patterns or identify which word doesn’t belong. This pushes students to think critically about sounds and notice similarities and differences across words.