Phoneme Awareness Assessment Tools:
Final Sounds

Phoneme Isolating
Directions:

Now I will say some more words. Listen to the ending sound of each word. Tell me which sound you hear at the end.

Model:
Listen to the word "sit."
I hear a /t/ sound at the end the word

Share:
Say the word "pig" with me.
What is the sound your hear at the end of pig? I hear a /g/ at the end of pig.

Assess:
Say each word after me and tell me the last sound.
tell
door
lion
food
beds

Phoneme Matching
Directions:

Now I will say some more words. Listen to the ending sound of each word. Tell me which two words end with the same sound. Let me show you.

Model:
Listen to these words: sun, king, fan.
Two of the words end with the same sound; sun ends with the same sound as fan   /n/.

Share:
Let us say the words together. Two of the words end with the same sound. Can you tell me which two end with the same sound? Listen: peach, frog, pig.
Which two end with the same sound? Yes, frog and pig end with the same sound /g/.

Assess:
Listen to each group of words and tell me which two have the same ending sound.

tall
sand
far
sing
bat
pipe
land
gum
boys
run
ball
home
car
toys
man


Prepared by Dr. Adria Klein, Professor at CSU San Bernardino


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