Say-It-and-Move-It
PSF - Phonemic Awareness Segment and Blend Phonemes

The purpose of this activity is to teach students how to divide words into phonemes and blend the phonemes back into words. Moving counters is an instructional strategy that helps students develop an awareness of all the sounds in words.

Materials: Say-It-and-Move-It mat and six counters. Circular
discs can be used as counters, as well as many different manipulatives. The Say-It-and-Move-It mat is a sturdy 8.5 X 11 page (see Downloads area) with a circle at the top (to hold the counters when not in use) and an arrow at the bottom of the page (to prompt sound connection during use).
Warm Up
Download your own printable Say-It-and-Move-It mat


In order to become aware of the sounds in words we are going to play a game where we will use counters on a mat to separate sounds, then put them back together again.

This is a Say-It-and-Move-It mat. Do you see this circle at the top of the page? This is "home base" where we keep all the counters when we are not using them.

This arrow is important. The counters are moved from home base to rest on the line. The arrow goes from left to right reminding us to put the sounds back together to say the word.

I'll use the word "mom." The first sound is /m/. The next sound is /o/. The last sound is /m/. Then I say them all together (slide finger): /m/ /o/ /m/, mom.

Show mat, home base, and counters.
Run finger along arrow, left to right. Do this with every word.
One counter per sound. Then elongate sounds w/ slide.


Now let's try the word "miss" together: /m/ (move counter), /i/ (move counter), /s/ (move counter). We'll slide our finger along the arrow while saying the sounds.
If Correct: Great.

If Incorrect: Say /mmm/ (move counter). Now say /iii/ (move counter). And now /sss/ (move counter). Now say them all together (slide finger): miss.

Move one counter per sound. Elongate sounds while sliding.
Try to get a correct response before proceeding.


Now it's your turn. The next word is "red."
If Correct: Good work. Let's try some more.

If Incorrect: What's the first sound in the word "red" (move counter)? The middle sound? The last sound? Now say them together (slide finger).

Hints and clues are okay.

Activities


Show me all the sounds in ...
Put it together.

shoe Correct: /sh/.../oo/, shoe
zoo Correct: /z/.../oo/, zoo
it Correct: /i/…/t/, it
me Correct: /m/…/ee/, me

too Correct: /t/…/oo/, too
bee Correct: /b/../ee/, bee
up Correct: /u/…/p/, up
off Correct: /o/…/ff/, off

key Correct: /k/…/ee/, key
sad Correct: /s/.../a/.../d/, sad
man Correct: /m/.../a/.../n/, man
feed Correct: /f/.../ea/.../d/, feed

house Correct: /h/.../ow/.../s/, house
van Correct: /v/.../a/.../n/, van
mop Correct: /m/.../o/.../p/, mop
fan Correct: /f/.../a/.../n/, fan

keep Correct: /k/…/ee/…/p/, keep
wish Correct: /w/…/i/…/sh/, wish
bed Correct: /b/..../e/…/d/, bed
rod Correct: /r/…/o/…/d/, rod