Say It , Move It- Sentence Segmenting

*** Phonological Awareness Instruction is auditory 

and does not involve print. ***

Say It, Move It Mats

These work mats are use for sentence segmenting. These are actually copied from the SRA Phonemic Awareness book used in kindergarten to teach the first step on our phonological continuum.

Lesson

Give the students the sheets and chips or colored blocks (colors signify first, middle, and last word in the sentence). Best to start with simple two word sentences. Give them two chips and say “We run.” “We eat.”   “We play.”

You say it

The kids say it with you

They say it by themselves

You move your chips while you say it, they watch

Then they say it and move one chip for each word to the line with the arrow.

Build to examples such as “We like recess.” “He runs fast.” and so on, building to longer sentences. “The flower is blue.”

Have the children count the words in each sentence after they’ve moved their chips correctly in time with saying the words. Say it, move it!