Sounds Abound: Storybook Activities

The activities are suitable for whole class instruction, small groups, and individuals; preschoolers though early elementary grades; and regular and special education classrooms.  There are a variety of questions at each level of learning so you can easily address individual needs in a group. 

The easy-to-follow format uses the same skill sequence in each book-unit.  The story content and vocabulary words are integrated into an exhaustive compilation of practice activities.  Students progress to awareness of increasingly smaller units of speech:

• Word Awareness
• Syllable Awareness
  - clapping syllables
  - blending syllables
  - deleting syllables
  - reversing syllables
• Rhyming
  - recognize rhymes
  - discriminate rhymes
  - generate rhymes
• Sound Awareness
  - initial sound play
  - identify and generate words beginning with the given sound
  - blend monosyllable words
  - blend sounds to make a word
  - match initial sounds
  - identify initial and final sounds of words
  - substitute initial and final sounds
  - segment sounds
  - delete initial and final sounds
  - delete sounds in blends

The lessons are based on storybooks that you supply.  There are 43 book-units.  Several of the books have content related to curricular topics.  Some of the titles are (see the Table of Contents for a complete list):

• A Pocket for Corduroy
• Caps for Sale
• If You Give a Moose a Muffin
• Pumpkin Pumpkin
• Strega Nona
• The Snowy Day
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Tikki Tikki Tembo

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Sounds Abound: Storybook Activities