phonological awareness

Counting Syllables? Try this game! Students count syllables in words, an important phonological skill, with cards placed on trees that correspond to the number of syllables in each word.

Tree cards:
1 syllable, 2 syllables, 3 syllables, 4 syllables

Bird Cards:
1 Syllable: cat, pen, hat, bug, hit, map, net, mug, lip
2 Syllable: baseball, cookie, cupcake, helmet, honey, laptop, money, picnic, robot
3 Syllable: battery, calendar, eleven, hamburger, sunflower, microwave, octopus, pineapple, unicorn
4 Syllable: America, avocado, calculator, caterpillar, elevator, helicopter, watermelon, aquarium, alligator