Provide students with purposeful practice and fun activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and interacting with the sounds of language. Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness offers 70 lessons that are grouped according to phonological skills and include kinesthetic, visual, and aural representations. Through singing songs, engaging in role-playing games, or tossing balls of yarn, students will gain quality speech practice and learn how to isolate sounds and recognize individual words, syllables, rhymes, and phonemes. Alternate suggestions at the end of each activity are also included to make accommodating modifications for diverse learners. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness Standards.

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Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness
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0Table of contents
- Cover
- Credits
- Page 3 - Table of Contents
- Page 4 - Table of Contents (cont.)
- Page 5 - A Context for Phonological Awareness
- Page 6 - A Brief Lesson in Phonology
- Page 10 - Phonological Awareness: A Definition
- Page 13 - English Speech Sounds
- Page 14 - The Importance of Phonological Awareness
- Page 15 - Phonological Awareness Development
- Page 15 - Progression
- Page 17 - The Difficulty with Phonological Awareness
- Page 17 - Fostering Phonological Awareness
- Page 18 - Supporting English Language Learners’ Development of Phonological Awareness
- Page 20 - A Word About Word Awareness
- Page 21 - Assessment
- Page 25 - Overview of the Activities
- Page 27 - Tips for Success
- Page 30 - A Letter for Families
- Page 32 - Correlations to Standards
- Page 37 - Word Awareness
- Page 38 - Hopping Game
- Page 40 - Moving Blocks
- Page 42 - Words Around a Circle
- Page 44 - Robot Speak
- Page 46 - Guess My Word
- Page 48 - Don’t Say It!
- Page 50 - Five Little Monkeys
- Page 52 - Sentence Strips
- Page 55 - Syllable Awareness
- Page 56 - Have You Ever Heard Some Children?
- Page 58 - Clap, Clap, Clap Your Hands
- Page 60 - Bearsie Bear
- Page 62 - Dracula
- Page 64 - Count the Syllables
- Page 66 - Copycat
- Page 68 - Sort the Cards
- Page 70 - Syllable Turn Taking
- Page 72 - Cut It Apart
- Page 74 - Hide It
- Page 76 - There Was a Teacher
- Page 78 - Reverse!
- Page 81 - Onset and Rime Awareness
- Page 82 - The Hungry Thing
- Page 84 - The Hungry Thing Goes toa Restaurant
- Page 86 - Rhymes in a Bag
- Page 88 - Add a Verse
- Page 90 - A Tisket, A Tasket
- Page 92 - Hickory Dickory Dock
- Page 94 - To Market! To Market!
- Page 96 - Jamberry
- Page 98 - Web of Words
- Page 100 - The Ants Go Marching
- Page 102 - I Spy
- Page 104 - The Mystery Bag
- Page 106 - Ring Around the Rosy
- Page 108 - Mail a Package
- Page 110 - Going on a Word Hunt
- Page 112 - I Say, You Say
- Page 114 - Trip! Trap!
- Page 116 - Puppet Play
- Page 118 - Phoneme Awareness
- Page 120 - Sound Snacks
- Page 122 - What Is My Word?
- Page 124 - Do You Know?
- Page 126 - Concentration
- Page 128 - Willoughby Wallaby
- Page 130 - Cock-a-Doodle-Moo!
- Page 132 - Sound Bingo
- Page 134 - Pop! Goes the Weasel
- Page 136 - The Farmer in the Dell
- Page 138 - Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
- Page 140 - Bappy Birthday Boo Boo
- Page 142 - Find Your Partner
- Page 144 - The Golden Touch
- Page 146 - Odd One Out!
- Page 148 - The Line Game
- Page 150 - Can You Help Me withThese Sounds?
- Page 152 - If You Think You Know This Word
- Page 154 - Turn It Over!
- Page 156 - Segmenting Sam
- Page 158 - Slow Motion Speech
- Page 160 - Beginning, Middle, or End?
- Page 162 - Elkonin Sound Boxes
- Page 164 - Break It!
- Page 166 - Simon Says
- Page 169 - Phoneme Awareness with Letters
- Page 170 - Post That Letter!
- Page 172 - Sound Sort
- Page 174 - Make a Change
- Page 176 - Willoughby Wallaby with Letters
- Page 178 - “A” Was Once an Apple Pie
- Page 180 - Draw a Card
- Page 182 - Add a Sound
- Page 184 - Make a Word
- Page 186 - References Cited
- Page 188 - Bibliography of Literature: Books
- Page 189 - Bibliography of Literature: Chants, Rhymes, and Songs
- Page 190 - Contents of Teacher Resource CD
- Thank You Page