Segmenting Phonemes + Fine Motor Development Worksheets

This pack of 8 worksheets is the perfect early years resource to add to your collection of resources. Not only will students show their understanding of segmenting and counting sounds in words, but they’ll also get some great fine motor development with the cutting and pasting that will be involved in completing this set of worksheets.

This worksheet pack includes the following worksheets:

• Segmenting and sorting between 3 phoneme words and 4 phoneme words.
• Segmetning and sorting between 4 phoneme words and 5 phoneme words.
• Segmenting and sorting between 3 phoneme, 4 phoneme, and 5 phoneme words.
• Creating scoops of ice cream to sort between 3-5 phoneme words.
• Cutting and pasting numbers on ice creams to show how many phonemes in each image shown on the scoop of ice cream.

An answer key is included with your download to make grading fast and easy!  

✂️ Give Them the (Safety) Scissors 

This template makes for a bonus cutting skills activity, depending on your students’ ages and abilities. 

With adult supervision, cutting skills help students work multiple muscle groups and their brains, plus:

• strengthen finger and hand muscles
• build dexterity and fine motor skills
• improve hand-eye coordination
• develop focus and attention.

And all of these skills are necessary to use a pencil and a fork; button a shirt and tie shoes; write, type and swipe.

Scissor skills are brain and muscle skills! 

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding  

This worksheet set includes a variety of different sorting activities, for students who need the extra challenge, you may like to go straight to sorting between 2,4 and 5 phoneme words. 

For students who need a little extra support, provide them with the cut-and-paste that focuses on only sorting between the 3 and 4 phoenme words to begin with.

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource. 

Because this resource includes an answer sheet, we recommend you print one copy of the entire file. Then, make photocopies of the blank worksheet for students to complete.

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This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a Teach Starter collaborator.