These activity sheets will teach your students how to identify different phoneme sounds within words.

This collection of worksheets will help your students learn to identify individual phonemes. Activities include counting the number of different phoneme sounds within a given word, identifying the specific phonemes within a given word (represented by a picture clue), filling in blanks with missing sounds (either from their own knowledge or from a supplied list), and matching picture clues with the correct phoneme from a given list. Answer keys have been provided for each worksheet for instructors.

Note for Instructors: Make sure your students understand the difference between syllables and phonemes. A one-syllable word can have many different sounds within it!

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How Many Sounds Do You Hear?

Quietly say the name of each picture. Color in one square for each sound that you hear.

Phoneme Segmentation

Break the words down into their individual sounds. Use the “/” mark to denote each sound. Write each sound in its own box. Only use as many boxes as you need. For example: "arm" = /a/ /r/ /m/

Quiet Now...

Quietly say the name of each picture. In the square, write the number of sounds that you hear.

Breakdown Part 2

Look at the picture and determine the word and the individual letter sounds that you hear. Now chunk the sounds into the boxes.

Breaking Words Down Into Sounds

Break the words down into their individual sounds. Use the "/" mark to denote each sound. Write each sound in its own box. Only use as many boxes as you need.

Counting Phonemes

Quietly say the name of each picture. Color in one circle for each sound that you hear.

Pig to Star

We word chunk pig, stick, nest, sun, ball, shell, tree, and star.

What's the Missing Sound?

Say the name of each picture. Look at the sounds underneath. Fill in the missing sound. Use the "/" mark to denote each sound.

Lost and Found Sounds

You need to find (found) the lost sounds from the sound box.

Count the Sounds

Quietly say the name of each picture. Color in one square for each sound that you hear.

What Sounds Do You Hear?

Segment the words, pot, trap, hen, cart, cape, horse, drill, lamp.

Segmenting Phonemes

Say the name of each picture. Break the words down into their individual sounds. Match each picture to the correct sounds.

Lost and Found 2

What is that endless missing sound you see here?

Segment Me

Which sounds goes with which word?

How Many Sounds?

For every sound, color in a circle.