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Building Phonemic Awareness: Airplane Flying Sounds

March 2, 2016 •

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Look up.  It’s an airplane.  Today we are building phonemic awareness with paper airplanes.  I think I hear some cheers out there.

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and orally produce letter sounds.  For example, the word “sun” has three phonemes /s/ /u/ /n/.  Children with a strong phonemic awareness will generally find learning to read easier.

Build phonemic awareness with a fun and playful paper airplane activity. Perfect to use with preschoolers and kindergarten students.

The neat thing about helping kids develop phonemic awareness is that we do it through fun and playful activities.  In today’s case, we are flying paper airplanes.

Airplane Flying Phonemic Awareness

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Getting Ready to Play

A great paper airplane book full of paper and directions.

All you need for this activity is a paper airplane for each child.  You can make your own or use this cool book, 100 Paper Planes to Fold and Fly, that is full of colorful paper sheets and folding instructions.

Let’s Play

It’s time to fly.  Let each child pick a destination he would like to fly to.  Maybe it’s Hawaii, Alaska, Italy or Canada (all places that I would like to go).  As your child releases the plane, he should say the beginning sound of the destination.  Have him continue to repeat the sound until his plane lands.  So, if he chose Hawaii before “takeoff,”  he would say /h/ /h/ /h/ /h/ h/ and so on until the plane lands.  You do want to make sure the child does not add extra phonemes to the beginning sound.  Check out this video for more.

playing the beginning sounds phonemic awareness activity with paper airplanes

You can also select a destination if  your child is having trouble thinking of a location to fly.  Repeat until your child tires of the activity.

Looking for a way to use paper airplanes with a math twist?  Check out The Educators’ Spin On It idea, Airplane Number Games.

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Filed Under: All categories, Getting Ready to Read Tagged With: phonological awareness, Usborne

About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Crystal says

    March 6, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    You are going to make many little boys(and girls) HAPPPY with this one!! I tried for so long to find an activity that included airplanes and speech….Thank you:) I’m sharing!

    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      March 6, 2016 at 9:43 pm

      Oh awesome Crystal!!

      • Crystal says

        March 6, 2016 at 10:05 pm

        Mrs. Jodi, I apologize but for some reason Facebook won’t allow me to share from your site but is allowing me to share from your Facebook page. :(.

  2. Amanda says

    March 2, 2016 at 8:59 am

    I want to go to h h h Hawaii!!!!!!!!! What a fun way to include learning about the world too!

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