Phoneme Manipulation Practice
A Grade 3 ELA worksheet focusing on phoneme manipulation skills, including adding, deleting, and substituting phonemes to create new words.
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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/').