Oral Segmenting: Breaking Words into Sounds
Oral Segmenting: Breaking Words into Sounds
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Help your child learn to hear and separate the individual sounds within spoken words.
Oral segmenting is an essential early literacy skill. Before children can confidently spell and write words, they need to recognise each sound they can hear. Practising this skill helps children understand how words are constructed and prepares them to connect sounds with letters when reading and writing at school.
The activity progresses from simple two-sound words to three-sound words, while the included demonstration video shows you how to practise segmenting confidently at home.
Make it easier
Begin with familiar two-sound words. Say the complete word first and then help your child stretch it out, listening carefully for each individual sound.
You can say and separate the sounds together until your child becomes more confident.
Make it harder
Progress to words containing three individual sounds. Encourage your child to say the word, identify each sound independently and count how many sounds they can hear.
Once your child begins recognising written letter sounds, they can progress to the extension activity.
Skills supported
- Hearing individual sounds within words
- Separating words into two and three sounds
- Phonemic awareness
- Listening and auditory discrimination
- Early spelling and writing foundations
- Connecting spoken sounds with written letters
What you’ll receive
- A five-page printable word card set
- Words containing two and three sounds
- A two-page CVC extension activity
- Visual prompts to support sound-to-letter connections
- A step-by-step oral segmenting demonstration video
- Ideas for making the activity easier or more challenging
Format: Seven printable PDF pages with online video access
Recommended for: Children approximately 3.5–6 years old
Format: Printable PDF with online video access
Please note: This is a digital product. No physical item will be posted
How do I get my resources?
Straight after checkout you'll see your access links on the order confirmation page, and we email them to you too. Printables download instantly and you can find everything again in your account.
Printing tips
Print on A4 paper at home or at your local print shop. Pop pages in a plastic sleeve or laminate them so your child can use them again with a whiteboard marker.
Can I share the files?
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