Sound Deletion - Initial, Final and blend Sounds
by Word & Wonder © 2026
Price: $2.5 USD
Subjects: ela,reading,foundationalSkills,phonics,phonologicalAwareness,speech
Grades: 14,13,1,2
Description
Get ready to bulldoze sounds and build strong phonological awareness skills! In this engaging construction-themed activity, students remove sounds from words to create new words. They will tap the sound to "bulldoze" it, then identify the new word that remains. This deck includes a variety of phoneme deletion tasks, including: 🚧 Initial sound deletion 🚧 Final sound deletion 🚧 Blend sound deletion challenge cards Students will practice manipulating sounds within words, an important advanced phonemic awareness skill that supports reading, spelling, decoding, and word recognition. Students will: • Identify the target word • Remove the specified sound • Create a new word • Select the correct answer Perfect for: • Speech therapy • Literacy centers • Reading intervention • Small groups • Independent practice • Homeschool learning • Science of Reading instruction Skills targeted: • Phoneme deletion • Phoneme manipulation • Phonemic awareness • Phonological awareness • Auditory discrimination • Sound awareness • Early literacy skills • Decoding foundations This deck is ideal for students who have already mastered basic phonological awareness skills such as rhyming, blending, segmenting, and sound identification and are ready for more advanced phoneme manipulation activities. ⭐ Be sure to check out my other phonological awareness resources
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