Phonemic Awareness Task Cards — Rhyming, Blending, Segmenting & More (72 Cards)

Phonemic awareness is completely oral — a child who can't read yet can still do every card in this pack, because the teacher does the reading. Each of the 72 task cards carries the exact prompt to read aloud ("Blend these sounds: /d/ /o/ /g/. What word?"), and the child answers out loud — no pencil, no reading, no prep beyond print and cut. The 13-page PDF covers the FULL phonemic awareness skill range in nine sets of eight cards each, sequenced easiest to hardest: Set 1 Rhyming (do these words rhyme? which two rhyme?), Set 2 Syllable Counting (clap and count), Set 3 Beginning Sounds, Set 4 Ending Sounds, Set 5 Blending (put sounds together into a word), Set 6 Segmenting (break a word into its sounds), Set 7 Sound Deletion (say snap without the /s/ — nap), Set 8 Sound Substitution (change the /m/ in mat to /s/ — sat), and Set 9 Mixed Review with one card from every skill. Cards print 8 per page with dashed cut lines and a numbered corner chip (CARD 1 to CARD 72), so a page of card stock turns into a pocket set in under a minute — use 3-5 cards at a time as a warm-up, in small groups, or one-on-one. A how-to page explains the oral routine (say sounds, not letter names), and a full 3-page guidance key gives the answer to every card — deletion and substitution answers are always real words, and the open rhyming card lists example answers so nothing is left to guess. Every word is kindergarten-appropriate. Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten and grade 1, homeschool, reading intervention and speech practice — the oral companion to our written Phoneme Segmentation Worksheets. Print-ready PDF in both US Letter and A4.