As soon as students are able to correctly produce the phoneme in isolation, it’s time to move them to the syllable level. It’s sometimes difficult to find fun ways for practicing syllables. The Road Racers for the /r/ phoneme and the Silly Snake activity for the /s/ phoneme may just do the trick. When you download these activities you’ll receive 15 differentiated boards. Be sure to begin with the boards containing single vowel sounds and then gradually move to the boards with multiple vowels. For the Silly Snake activity, students move their finger along the snake and then change the sound to the vowel once their finger slides across the letter.
It’s the same idea for the Road Racers activity; however, for the /r/ phoneme you can add a little twist by using a little car. For each activity I’ve also added syllable drill cards.
You’ll have your students moving to correct sound production in words in no time! Enjoy!