All seven Sound Studio phoneme manipulation decks in one download, covering adding, deleting, swapping and flipping sounds to build new words.
Build strong readers—one sound at a time!
Kite & Bloom’s Science of Reading Slides make it easy to bring meaningful, engaging sound practice into your daily literacy routine. Designed for busy elementary teachers, these ready-to-use slides provide quick, focused opportunities for students to listen, think, manipulate sounds, and strengthen the foundational skills they need for reading and spelling success.
Students practise essential phonemic awareness skills through engaging activities such as adding sounds, deleting sounds, substituting sounds, identifying sound changes, manipulating vowels, and building new words.
Perfect for whole-class instruction, small groups, intervention, literacy centres, morning routines, or quick phonemic awareness warm-ups.
Why Teachers Will Love Them
Science of Reading aligned – Focused on explicit practice with the sounds in spoken words.
Ready to teach – Simply display the slides and begin. Minimal preparation required.
Short & focused – Easy to incorporate into your existing literacy block without adding another complicated program.
Progressive practice – Activities move beyond simple sound identification to increasingly challenging phoneme manipulation.
Engaging for students – Colourful, classroom-friendly slides turn essential phonemic awareness practice into an interactive routine.
Flexible – Use the slides with your entire class, during guided instruction, or to provide targeted practice for students who need additional support.
Activities Include
Add It On • Take It Away • Sound Check • Swap the Sound • Vowel Flip • Which New Word? • What Changed?
Whether you need a five-minute literacy warm-up or targeted phonemic awareness practice, Kite & Bloom gives you a simple way to build stronger foundational reading skills—without spending your evenings creating another set of slides.
Less prep. More purposeful practice. Stronger readers.
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What Changed? – Phonemic Awareness Sound Studio
Build stronger readers with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource! The deck begins with a short mini lesson explaining why sound manipulation matters, helping students understand how changing and noticing sounds supports decoding, spelling, word recognition, and flexible reading.
Students then work through 10 interactive “What Changed?” practice slides, comparing word pairs and deciding whether the beginning, middle, or ending sound changed. Examples include cat → cot, shop → chop, skate → slate, and stamp → stump.
Perfect for whole-class phonemic awareness instruction, small groups, literacy centres, intervention, or a quick daily sound routine.
Which New Word? – Phonemic Awareness Sound Studio for Junior Readers
Strengthen phonemic awareness with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource designed for junior readers! The deck begins with a short mini lesson explaining why sound manipulation matters, helping students understand how changing sounds supports decoding, spelling, word recognition, and flexible reading.
Students then work through 10 interactive “Which New Word?” practice slides, changing a sound or sound blend in a word and choosing the new word that matches. Activities include examples such as changing /ch/ in chop to /sh/, /kr/ in crate to /pl/, and vowel sounds in words like cap, pen, and hop.
Perfect for junior literacy instruction, small groups, intervention, centres, or a quick daily phonemic awareness routine.
Vowel Flip – Phonemic Awareness for Junior Readers
Build stronger phonemic awareness with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource created for junior readers! Students practise changing the middle vowel sound to create new words, helping strengthen decoding, spelling, sound awareness, and flexible reading.
The deck includes 10 interactive Vowel Flip practice slides with a range of words, from cap, hop, and fin to more complex examples such as cape, hope, bead, and plane. Perfect for whole-class literacy instruction, small groups, intervention, centres, or daily phonemic awareness practice.
Sound Check – Phonemic Awareness for Junior Readers
Strengthen phonemic awareness with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource for junior readers! The deck begins with a short mini lesson explaining why sound manipulation matters, helping students understand how strong readers listen closely to sounds to support decoding, spelling, and flexible reading.
Students then work through 10 interactive “Sound Check” slides, saying words slowly and identifying how many phonemes they hear — counting sounds, not letters. Practice moves from words such as brush, float, and stamp to more complex words like birthday, toothbrush, strength, and friendship.
Perfect for junior literacy instruction, small groups, intervention, literacy centres, or a quick daily phonemic awareness routine.
Phonemic Awareness for Junior Readers – Sound Studio
Build stronger, more flexible readers with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource created for junior readers! The deck begins with a short mini lesson explaining why phoneme manipulation matters, showing students how working with sounds supports decoding unfamiliar words, noticing sound patterns, spelling, and reading confidence.
Students then practise a variety of phonemic awareness skills through interactive activities including Sound Check, Add It On, Take It Away, Swap the Sound, Vowel Flip, Which New Word?, and What Changed? Activities move beyond basic sound work and challenge students to count phonemes, add and delete sounds, substitute sounds and blends, manipulate vowels, and create new words.
The deck finishes with a Bloom Ticket exit activity so students can show what they know and reflect on the strategies that helped them most.
Perfect for junior whole-class literacy instruction, small groups, intervention, literacy centres, or daily phonemic awareness practice.
Add It On – Phonemic Awareness for Junior Readers
Strengthen phonemic awareness with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource for junior readers! The deck begins with a short mini lesson explaining why phoneme manipulation matters, helping students understand how working with sounds supports decoding, spelling, sound patterns, and flexible reading.
Students then work through 10 interactive “Add It On” slides, listening to a word and adding a sound at the beginning or end to create a new word. Examples include ash + /c/ → cash, lane + /p/ → plane, and care + /d/ → cared.
Perfect for junior whole-class literacy instruction, small groups, intervention, literacy centres, or daily phonemic awareness practice.
Swap the Sound – Phonemic Awareness for Junior Readers
Build stronger phonemic awareness with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource for junior readers! The deck begins with a short mini lesson explaining why phoneme manipulation matters, helping students understand how working with sounds supports decoding unfamiliar words, spelling, noticing patterns, and becoming more flexible readers.
Students then work through 10 interactive “Swap the Sound” slides, changing one sound, blend, or vowel sound to create a new word. Practice includes examples such as brick → trick, drum → plum, cat → cut, and more complex sound changes in words like bridge, grain, and twist.
Perfect for junior whole-class literacy instruction, small groups, intervention, literacy centres, or daily phonemic awareness practice.
Take It Away – Phonemic Awareness for Junior Readers
Strengthen phonemic awareness with this engaging Kite & Bloom Sound Studio resource for junior readers! The deck begins with a short mini lesson explaining why phoneme manipulation matters, showing students how working with sounds supports decoding, spelling, noticing patterns, and becoming more flexible readers.
Students then work through 10 interactive “Take It Away” slides, listening to a word, deleting a sound, and saying the new word. Practice includes removing beginning and ending sounds from words such as block, smile, plane, card, goal, and team, with later slides increasing the challenge using words with endings and more complex sound patterns.
Perfect for junior whole-class literacy instruction, small groups, intervention, literacy centres, or daily phonemic awareness practice.
