Preventing the Summer Slide - Phonemic Awareness Activities

📚 Prevent the Summer Slide with Fun Phonemic Awareness Activities | Laprea Education

Looking for effective, research-backed ways to prevent the summer slide in reading? In this video, Melanie from Laprea Education shares fun and easy phonemic awareness activities you can use to keep your students’ foundational literacy skills sharp all summer long!

Phonemic awareness is a critical component of the Science of Reading and plays a key role in helping students become fluent, confident readers. These engaging activities are perfect for K–2 classrooms, summer school, tutoring, or at-home practice—and they require little to no prep!

🧠 In this video, you’ll learn:

How to practice alliteration and sound matching

Simple ways to compare voiced and unvoiced sounds

How to build students’ skills with initial and final phoneme segmentation

Fun games like “Odd Word Out” and phoneme deletion

Activities to develop phoneme reversal and sound discrimination

Whether you're a teacher, literacy coach, or interventionist, these strategies will help you reinforce phonemic awareness skills and support reading growth during the summer months.

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