This PowerPoint lesson is an engaging and effective way to teach segmenting words and phonemic awareness. It is designed for kindergarten and grade one students to practice breaking down words into individual phonemes. With 90 differentiated slides featuring real-life photographs, you'll have plenty of word options to choose from. The included pictures represent words with 2, 3, 4, and 5 phonemes. This resource makes teaching phoneme segmentation fun and easy.

Foundations of Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is an important skill that forms the foundation of phonics and reading development. It is the ability to focus on and manipulate individual phonemes in words. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a word that can change the word's meaning. For example, the word cat has three phonemes: /k/ /æ/ /t/. By manipulating these phonemes, you can create new words like bat, rat, and hat.

Phoneme segmentation is a critical component of phonemic awareness. It involves breaking down words into individual phonemes. It helps students learn the decoding skills required for reading and writing.

This PowerPoint can help you explicitly teach how to segment words into phonemes and it will give your students plenty of opportunities to practice phoneme segmentation.

Self-Checking Slides

The PowerPoint includes self-checking slides to help monitor student’s segmenting skills.

Each slide presents a picture for children to segment. Once they have segmented the word, a mouse click reveals the correct number of phonemes (represented in dots). Your students can practice subitising and counting, as well as phoneme segmentation!

I like that the self-checking feature also helps to build students' confidence. They can see their progress and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Optional Brain Breaks Included

You can easily delete the brain break slides if you don’t want this option. I find these quick and simple breaks add a bit of movement and fun. They are perfect for keeping students engaged and learning.

Keep Students Engaged

Keep your students engaged and interested in learning phoneme segmentation. With visually appealing real-life photographs and interactive slides, students will easily recognise and relate to the slides.

This Segmenting Words PowerPoint Lesson Includes:

• An introduction to segmenting words and phonemes

• Followed by 20 slides with pictures representing 2 phonemes

• 30 slides with pictures representing 3 phonemes

• 20 slides with pictures representing 4 phonemes

• And 20 slides with pictures representing 5 phonemes

• 2 review summary slides

Oh and of course, this lesson also includes brain break slides throughout. These slides provide a fun and interactive way for students to take a break from the main content and refresh their thinking.

Save on Planning Time

With this Segmenting Words PowerPoint, you can save a significant amount of time on lesson planning. You no longer need to spend hours creating your own presentations or searching for suitable images online. The PowerPoint is a ready-to-use resource that is easy to integrate into your daily lessons.

You can focus more on teaching and less on preparation. It is a user-friendly PowerPoint, with a clear and simple layout that makes it easy for you to navigate. The clear design also makes it easy for young children to use the resource independently if you are looking for a literacy rotation idea.

A Versatile Resource

I designed this PowerPoint as a literacy warm-up but it can also be used for

• whole-class explicit lessons

• assessment

• transitions

• targeted segmenting practice

• literacy revision and intervention

• ANYTIME you want to build phonemic awareness!

 Easy Differentiation

With the comprehensive collection of slides in this resource, you can easily differentiate your instruction to meet the needs of your students.

For students who are struggling to segment three-phoneme words like CVC words, you can use the presentation's 2-phoneme slides to develop beginner segmenting skills. The 2-phoneme slides provide a solid foundation for students to build upon as they progress to more complex words.

Once your students have mastered 2 and 3 phoneme words, you can challenge them with the PowerPoint's 40 extra slides containing 4 and 5 phoneme words. These advanced slides provide a great opportunity for students to apply their segmenting skills to more challenging words.

Download this Segmenting Words PowerPoint lesson and confidently use this resource to help your students develop their phoneme segmentation skills. It’s a valuable addition to your literacy toolkit.