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Phoneme Manipulation Practice

A Grade 3 ELA worksheet focusing on phoneme manipulation skills, including adding, deleting, and substituting phonemes to create new words.

Grade 3 ELA GrammarPhonicsPhoneme Manipulation
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3.A

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ELAGrade 3PhonicsPhoneme Manipulation
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Phoneme Manipulation Practice

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Read each instruction carefully and manipulate the phonemes (sounds) in the words to create new words. Write your answers on the lines provided.

Add a phoneme to the beginning of each word to make a new word.

1. Add /s/ to 'top':  

2. Add /b/ to 'ring':  

3. Add /f/ to 'lash':  

4. Add /g/ to 'lade':  

Delete a phoneme from each word to make a new word.

1. Delete /s/ from 'stop':  

2. Delete /b/ from 'bread':  

3. Delete /l/ from 'clap':  

4. Delete /t/ from 'tent':  

Substitute the initial phoneme in each word to make a new word.

1. Change /c/ in 'cat' to /h/:  

2. Change /m/ in 'mat' to /s/:  

3. Change /b/ in 'bat' to /r/:  

4. Change /p/ in 'pig' to /d/:  

Substitute the final phoneme in each word to make a new word.

1. Change /t/ in 'hat' to /d/:  

2. Change /n/ in 'pin' to /g/:  

3. Change /p/ in 'cap' to /t/:  

4. Change /k/ in 'back' to /g/:  

Think of a word. Write it down, then write a new word by changing one phoneme.

Original word:  

New word (after changing one phoneme):  

Explain what phoneme you changed (e.g., 'I changed the initial /c/ to /b/').