How do you support phonemic awareness in your classroom? What simple activities do you include with your early learners?
Answer: Sound Cubes! Sound cubes are wooden or foam colored cubes that can be used to help students manipulate the sounds in words.
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I have used a similar strategy. I like to use elkonin boxes to have my students to segment the sounds that they hear. I also teach the students how to segment words using Michael Haggerty.
Sound cubes are a fantastic tool for supporting phonemic awareness! When combined with other resources like Heggerty, they can significantly enhance students’ ability to manipulate and recognize sounds.
We use the Kindergarten Heggerty book and during the beginning of the year, I will use the suggested hand motions and then transition to displaying words made with magnetic letters under my doc camera. Students use three cubes as they participate along with me. We use math cubes that are plastic with solid sides so that students can use dry erase markers to add the letters on each cube.
Have you heard of UFLI? It adds the print aspect to Dr Heggerty in a sense.
https://ufli.education.ufl.edu/foundations/toolbox/
