Summer Vibes – Counting Phonemes Interactive Activity

This interactive activity has been designed to engage students in a fun and interactive way as they practice counting phonemes in words. This interactive activity is perfect for children in early grades learning to identify and count sounds in words. 

With a summer-beachy vibes theme, students need to look at the picture on the slide. Then, students will segment and count the phonemes by dragging and dropping beach balls into the sound boxes. Students must then type in the number of phonemes they counted in the word. You might like to get them to record their responses on a piece of paper and check their answers on the final slide of the presentation.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners and ELL/ESL students, we have a few suggestions for keeping students on track with these concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Allow students to work on more simple words and work with a peer or in a whole group setting with support from the teacher. Encourage students to tap or clap the phonemes to help with counting.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Have students have a go at writing the graphemes that match the phonemes on a whiteboard after they have segmented the provided word.

🧑‍🏫 Group Learning

Project the slides onto a screen and work through them as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks or mini whiteboards. 

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

This interactive activity is available to download in Google Slides. Please open in Edit mode, not Presentation mode, to allow for the interactive component to work.

This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.