Words for Phonological Awareness Instruction

Word Type Words List

airplane, applesauce, backyard, baseball, bathtub, batman,
bedspread, beehive, beeswax, bookcase, breadstick, broomstick,
bullfrog, cardboard, carpool, cartwheel, coastline, coatrack,
cookbook, countdown, cowboy, cowgirl, crosswalk, daytime,
doorbell, downtown, drainpipe, eyelash, fishhook, flashlight, football,
footprints, greenhouse, groundhog, handbook, headband, headlight,
highway, highway, homework, jigsaw, ladybug, leapfrog, mushroom,
Compound
newsletter, newsprint, newsroom, noontime, northwest, oatmeal,
Words
outfit, outside, paintbrush, peanut, pigtail, playmate, playpen,
poolside, popcorn, railroad, raindrop, rooftop, rowboat, sailboat,
schoolbook, schoolhouse, schoolroom, seaside, seatbelt, seaweed,
seesaw, shortcut, sixteen, snowball, snowflake, snowman,
snowstorm, soapsuds, somehow, southwest, speedway, steamboat,
Sunday, sundown, sunshine, teapot, tinfoil, tiptoe, toenail,
toothbrush, upset, waistband, waistline

able, action, admit, advance, advice, afraid, after, annoy, apart,

apple, April, artist, athlete, away, baby, barber, basic, beetle, belong,
blanket, bottle, breakfast, bumpy, bunny, butter, cabin, cable, candle,
captain, careful, carpet, cartoon, center, challenge, chicken, children,
circle, city, classic, compare, complain, concert, concrete, contest,
corner, counting, cycle, daddy, darkness, decide, dentist, desert,
diner, disturb, divide, dusty, eagle, enjoy, enter, equal, excite,
explain, fancy, farmer, finish, forbid, forgave, forget, frozen, funny,
further, fuzzy, garden, garlic, gentle, greatest, happen, happy,
hornet, hundred, igloo, instead, jelly, jogger, juggle, July, kindness,
Two-Syllable kitten, lady, landed, lantern, lazy, little, magic, magnet, maple,
Words marble, market, maybe, meadow, messy, middle, Midwest,
miscount, misprint, mistake, mommy, monkey, morning, music,
napkin, nervous, never, northern, number, order, panda, partner,
payment, pencil, penny, perfect, perform, perfume, permit, person,
picture, pillow, pony, predict, prepay, prevent, priceless, princess,
puddle, puppy, purchase, purple, puzzle, quickly, raccoon, rainy,
rattle, recess, recline, rely, reprint, riddle, river, robin, robot, safely,
sample, sentence, seven, sharpen, silence, silent, silly, silver, simple,
sleepy, sloppy, snuggle, sparkle, spider, staple, student, study,
submit, suggest, sunny, super, surprise, table, target, teddy, termite,
thirsty, thirteen, Thursday, tiny, title, tricky, tumble, tummy, tunnel,
turtle, unfair, whistle, wiggle, window, winter, yellow, zero

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 addition, adventure, alphabet, amusement, animal, argument,
attendance, attention, attraction, audience, babysit, benefit,
borderline, butterfly, capable, carelessness, combining, comparing,
completely, completion, confusion, connected, consistent, continue,
contribute, dangerous, dealership, decision, department, developed,
difficult, disagree, disappear, disloyal, disorder, disturbance,
donation, dramatic, educate, encourage, energy, engineer, entertain,
estimate, evidence, example, expected, expensive, explaining,
fantastic, finishing, fisherman, flowerpot, forgetful, foundation,
Three-Syllable
gingerbread, grandmother, grocery, handwriting, hibernate, holiday,
Words
honesty, imagine, imperfect, impolite, important, impressive,
incomplete, inhabit, instructed, instructor, introduce, invention,
inventor, leadership, manager, maximum, medical, memorize,
minimum, obstacle, obvious, operate, organize, peppermint,
personal, porcupine, potato, principal, protection, punishing,
recapture, reconnect, reinvent, relaxing, remainder, remember,
returning, seventeen, similar, strategy, summarize, teenager,
telephone, tornado, umbrella, uncertain, uncommon, understand,
vacation, valentine, vitamin, windowsill

agreeable, apparently, astonishes, automatic, category, combination,

competition, consistently, contribution, development, difficulty,
disappearing, disrespectful, education, educator, encouragement,
Four-Syllable
entertainment, expectation, firefighter, impossible, incredible,
Words
investigate, manageable, misinform, misunderstand, obviously,
ordinary, participate, reconnection, reliable, reorganize, unexpected,
unproductive, unsuccessful

Onset & Select any word with an onset that has one phoneme
Rime (no from the One-Syllable Words (Simple Syllables)
blends) Three-Phonemes List
Onset
& Rime Onset &
Select any word with an onset from the One-Syllable
Rime (with
Words (Complex Syllables) Three- Four- or Five-
consonant
Phonemes Lists
blends)

ace, ache, age, aid, aim, an, ape, arm, art, ash, at,
ate, bay, be, bow, boy, by, car, cow, day, doe, each,
One-Syllable edge, eel, egg, far, few, fur, go, hay, he, hi, how, ice,
Words with
Words if, in, is, it, itch, jar, jaw, joy, key, knee, law, lay, lie,
Two
(Simple low, may, ray, me, mow, new, no, now, oak, oat, odd,
Phonemes
Syllables) off, oil, on, out, owl, own, pay, pie, raw, ray, row, saw,
say, see, she, show, shy, sigh, sir, so, tea, thaw, tie,
to, toe, toy, up, us, use, war, way, we, why, zoo

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 back, bad, badge, bait, bake, bark, barn, bat, batch,
bath, beach, bead, bean, bed, beg, big, bike, bin,
bird, birth, bite, boil, bone, book, boot, booth, born,
both, bowl, bug, burn, cage, cake, call, can, card,
cart, case, cash, cat, catch, cave, cell, chain, charge,
chart, chat, cheek, chin, chip, chip, chirp, choice,
chop, chose, church, coin, cone, cook, cook, cool,
cord, corn, cube, cup, curb, curl, dark, dash, dawn,
deck, dime, dirt, ditch, dodge, dog, doll, down, face,
fade, fail, faith, fake, farm, fawn, feed, feel, feet, fetch,
fill, firm, fish, fit, fog, foil, food, foot, force, fork, form,
fort, fudge, fun, fuse, gate, gate, gem, germ, get,
goal, goat, good, hard, harm, hat, hatch, hate, hawk,
head, head, hedge, hide, hike, hill, hole, home, hood,
hook, hoop, hope, horn, howl, hug, huge, hurt, jail,
join, joke, judge, jug, keep, keep, kid, kiss, kite, lace,
Words with
laid, lake, lamb, lame, lap, large, latch, late, lead, leaf,
Three
leak, leap, ledge, leg, let, lick, life, lime, line, loud,
Phonemes
mad, main, make, march, mat, match, math, meat,
men, mess, mice, mine, miss, mood, mop, moth,
much, mute, nail, neat, need, nice, nine, noon, north,
nose, nose, notch, nut, pad, page, paid, park, part,
peace, peach, peel, pen, phone, pick, pig, pile, pin,
pipe, pitch, pool, porch, pork, pot, rain, rat, rate,
reach, read, rib, rice, rich, ridge, rise, road, rock, roof,
room, root, rope, rude, rule, rush, sack, sad, sale,
same, sane, sauce, sell, set, shake, shark, shed,
sheet, ship, shirt, shook, shop, shout, shut, side, size,
soap, soil, song, sort, south, sun, sun, surf, take,
tape, teach, teeth, ten, that, them, theme, these,
thick, thin, third, thorn, tide, tile, time, toad, took, tool,
top, torn, town, tube, tune, turn, vat, verb, voice, vote,
wag, wage, wake, wet, whale, wheat, wheel, wife,
wish, wood, worn, yap, yard, yarn, yet, zoom

and, ant, blew, blow, blur, claw, clay, crow, cry, draw,
Words with drew, dry, east, elf, end, flaw, flea, flew, flow, fly, fry,
Three glow, gray, grow, ink, play, pray, scar, short, sky,
One-Syllable Phonemes slay, slow, snow, star, stew, sway, three, throw, tray,
Words tree, try
(Complex
Syllables) band, beast, belt, bend, best, blade, bled, bleed,
Words with bloom, blurt, blush, boast, brace, brag, braid, brain,
Four brave, bread, breath, bride, bridge, broke, broom,
Phonemes brown, brush, bump, burnt, burst, camp, clap, clash,
clean, click, clip, clock, clog, clown, coast, cold,

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 count, crab, crane, crash, crate, creek, crib, crowd,
crown, dance, dent, desk, drain, drawn, dream, drip,
drive, drop, drove, drown, drum, dust, faint, fast, fault,
feast, fence, first, fist, flag, flake, fled, float, flop, flute,
found, fox, frame, fresh, frog, frown, gift, glad, glass,
grab, grade, grain, grape, grass, green, greet, grill,
groan, growl, health, joint, junk, just, land, launch, lift,
limp, list, mask, meant, melt, milk, mist, must, nest,
paint, past, pest, pink, place, plan, plane, plate,
pledge, plug, plum, point, pound, price, prince, prize,
proof, quake (/q/ /w/ /ā/ /k/), raft, rest, risk, roast,
scarf, self, sent, shelf, shred, shrub, since, skate, skill,
skin, skip, skirt, skit, slack, sleep, slice, slid, slide,
slouch, slurp, smart, smell, smooth, snack, snail,
snake, sneak, snug, sound, space, spark, speak,
speech, speed, spell, spice, spill, spin, spoil, sport,
spot, spray, stack, stage, stain, start, steal, stern,
stick, sting, stole, stone, stood, stool, stop, storm,
stove, straw, stray, stride, stuck, sunk, sweep, sweet,
swim, swirl, switch, task, tent, think, thirst, thread,
throat, throne, track, trail, trait, trash, treat, trim, trip,
trout, truck, twice, twirl, vent, waist, wealth, went,
woods

brisk, drink, grand, ground, print, scrap, scrape,

Words with scratch, scream, screen, scrub, shrimp, shrunk,
Five spend, spent, splash, splat, split, sprain, spread,
Phonemes spring, squirt, strand, stream, street, stress, stride,
strike, string, stripe, twist

start with /ĭt/  add /h/, /b/, /f/, /k/, /l/, /m/, /p/, /s/
start with /ĭn/  add /b/, /k/, /f/, /p/, /t/, /w/
start with /ăt/  add /b/, /k/, /f/, /h/, /m/, /p/, /r/, /s/
start with /ăn/  add /b/, /f/, /k/, /m/, /p/, /r/, /t/, /v/
start with /ănd/  add /b/, /h/, /l/, /s/
start with /ăm/  add /h/, /j/, /l/, /p/, /s/, /y/
start with /āt/  add /b/, /d/, /f/, /g/, /h/, /l/ /m/, /r/, /w/
Phoneme start with /āk/  add /b/, /k/, /f/, /j/, /l/, /m/, /r/, /s/, /t/
Addition
Manipulation start with /ŏt/  add /b/, /k/, /g/, /h/, /j/, /l/, /n/, /p/, /r/
start with /ĕd/  add /b/, /d/, /f/, /h/, /l/, /r/, /s/, /w/
start with /ŭn/  add /b/, /d/, /f/, /p/, /r/, /s/, /w/
Select any other one-syllable word families, such as:
/ĭng/, /ĕt/, /ĭm/, /ŏp/, /ăp/, /ăk/, /ĭg/, /ĭp/, /ŭg/, /ŭt/, /ar/,
/ŭp/, /ĕnt/, /īd/, /ŏk/, /ām/, /āp/ /all/, /ŏb/, /īght/, /on/,
/ān/, /āl/

Updated2/21
 delete the initial sound from the following words:
blow, brisk, claw, crow, draw, drink, flaw, flow, glow,
gray, ground, grow, play, pray, slay, slow, snow,
sway, throw, tray, bled, bleed, brace, brag, braid,
brain, bread, bride, bridge, broom, brush, clap, clash,
clean, click, clip, clock, clog, crash, crate, crib, drain,
drip, flag, flake, fled, glad, grain, place, plane, plate,
Deletion pledge, plug, price, proof, quake, shred, shrub, sleep,
slid, smart, snail, space, spark, speak, speech, spill,
spin, spot, spray, stack, start, steal, stick, stone, stop,
stray, stuck, sweep, switch, thread, track, trail, trash,
street, trim, trip
delete the final sound from the following words: ant,
band, burnt, blurt, brown, dance, dent, joint, paint,
scarf, tent, think, woods

change /h/ in hat to /m/, /b/, /k/, /f/, /p/, /r/, or /s/
change /ă/ in hat to /ŏ/, /ŭ/, /ĭ/, /ē/, or /ā/
change /t/ in hat to /d/, /m/, /s/, or /v/
change /t/ in top to /h/, /m/, or /p/
change /ŏ/ top to /ă/, /ā/, / ĭ /, or /ī/
change /p/ in top to /k/, /m/, or /t/
Substitution change /s/ in sit to /b/, /k/, /f/, /h/, /l/, or /p/
change /i/ in sit to /ă/, /ĕ/, /ē/, /ī/, /ū/
change /t/ in sit to /k/, /l/, /p/, or /ks/
Select any other one-syllable word with 2-5
phonemes in which the first, middle, or last
sound/phoneme can be replaced.

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