Description
This worksheet helps students practice phoneme deletion—a key skill for reading fluency. It builds the mental muscle to hold, manipulate, and blend sounds.
Why Phoneme Deletion Matters
- Decoding: Hear a word (e.g., “brand”), segment into sounds /b/ /r/ /a/ /n/ /d/, and blend to read it.
- Deletion: Remove a sound (e.g., /b/) from “brand” to get “rand.”
- Spelling: Segment “rand” into sounds /r/ /a/ /n/ /d/ and write the letters.
Research shows phonemic awareness, including deletion, improves reading and spelling (Lundberg et al., 1988).
What’s Inside This Phoneme Deletion Kit
Step-by-step practice to build confidence and skill:
- Sound Identification: Circle the target sound in a word (e.g., “Find the /s/ in ‘star'”).
- Oral Deletion: Say the word without the target sound (“Say ‘star’ without the /s/”).
- Write the New Word: Write the word after deletion (“Write it: ___”). Connects hearing to writing.
3 Tips for Teaching This Skill
- Use Manipulatives: Represent each sound with blocks or tokens and remove the one for the deleted sound.
- Normalize the Struggle: Model the process calmly. Example: “s-t-a-r, remove /s/, left with t-a-r.”
Build the Mental Toolkit for Reading Fluency
This worksheet provides structured practice to automate sound manipulation, freeing mental energy for comprehension.
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