Phonemic Awareness Songs

Here are just some of our favorite songs to develop phonemic awareness. We wish we knew who to give credit to!

*Just sing and have fun helping students focus on hearing and generating sounds, no need to put these on charts for them.

 Identifying Phonemes (change songs for first/last/middle sounds)

Tune: London Bridge is Falling Down

What’s the [first sound] that you hear,

that you hear, that you hear,

What’s the [first sound] that you hear,

that you hear in ___, ___, and ___ ? (show pictures or objects)

/ / is the [first sound] that we hear, that we hear, that we hear.

/ / is the [first sound] that we hear at the [beginning] of

___, ___, and ___.

Tune: Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Which sound comes first in these words:

five, fat and fish? (show pictures or objects)

/f/ is the first sound in these words:

five, fat and fish

With a /f/ /f/ here and /f/ /f/ there,

Here a /f/, there a /f/, everywhere a /f/ /f/

/f/ is the first sound in these words:

five, fat and fish

Tune: BINGO

There is a kid in our class whose name starts like this
/k/ /k/ /k/ /k/ /k/
/k/ /k/ /k/ /k/ /k/
/k/ /k/ /k/ /k/ /k/
And [his] name is Kyle
Kyle stand up, Kyle stand up, Kyle stand up and...

Jump, jump, jump!

Phoneme Blending

Tune: Frere Jacques

Put the sounds together.

Put the sounds together.

/c/ /a/ /t/

/c/ /a/ /t/

What’s the word we made?

What’s the word we made?

cat, cat, cat

Onset and Rime

(this is Chrissa's favorite...)

Tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Can we sing this silly song?

Can we sing it all along?

Listen with your ear to the sounds you will hear.

I will say first sound and you will add the rime [/-ake/]

How many words can we make?

If I say /b/, you say ___.

If I say /c/, you say ___.

If I say /r/, you say ___.

If I say /f/, you say ___.

If I say /w/, you say ___.

If I say /sn/, you say ___.

etc.

Enjoy!
Chrissa & Stefanie