Phonemic awareness instruction spans the first two years of a child's schooling in grades Kindergarten and Grade One.  Oral activities in Kindergarten focus on building beginning knowledge with sound and word discrimination, rhyming, syllable splitting, blending, phoneme segmentation, phoneme deletion and finally phoneme manipulation.  These skills can be taught in a sequence that maximizes student understanding using games, songs, books. Here is a sample of Kindergarten games or songs that we are doing in our classroom or outdoors. Some are small group while others are whole group. Most of my teaching moves to small group by late October and the rest is integrated into literacy work stations and circle time. Building letter recognition: sorting, matching and naming letters. singing different alphabet songs, dancing and marching to abc songs, playing abc games in the gym, reading alphabet books and putting letters into your different play centres. For example...