Phoneme Substitution

This book is intended to teach 1st graders about letter sounds and substituting letters to make new words. As children are developing out of the emergent reading stage and becoming beginner readers/writers, it’s important to have the skill of knowing you can make a new word by plugging in new letters. 

Learning standard:

1RF2b: Create new words by manipulating individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken one-syllable words.

Student learning objectives:

Given a written or spoken word students will substitute a letter from the beginning, middle, or end of a word to create a new word.

What is phoneme substitution?

Phoneme substitution refers to the ability to replace a phoneme in a word with another phoneme to form a new word.

Video example

Out of the following 4 words, which word sounds like it belongs with the images from the following page

Car

Cat

Sit

Sip

With a partner create a list of 3 new words using the word steep

examples:

Sleep

Creep

Weep

How do we make a pancake?

Make a pancake pat, pat, pat

Do not make it fat, fat, fat

You must make it flat, flat, flat,

For homework:

Find an item in your house and substitute a letter at a time to create as many words as possible from it. Bring your list to tomorrow’s class. You may write out and/or draw out your words.

The end! You are now a letter substitution pro!