Phonemic Awareness

The best predictor of reading difficulty in kindergarten or first grade is the inability to segment words and syllables into constituent sound units (phonemic awareness)

It is necessary that students understand the spoken language before they try to understand the written language. They need to hear sounds and understand the role they play in spoken words. It is sequential, starting with spoken words >syllables >onsets and rimes >sounds within words.

Video from Reading Rockets - how one teacher helps a struggling reader.

Florida Center for Reading Research - Phonemic Awareness learning centers ( Part 1: Rhyme & Alliteration, Part 2 : Sentence Segmentation, Syllables, Onsets and Rime, Part 3 : Phonemes)

PBS Kids
This site of interactive activities includes making words, vocabulary, concept of word, phonics, alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and others.
ABC-Get Ready to Read - Starfall Resources
Although this site places the letter with the sounds (phonics), it's a great resource because of the exposure to the sounds. Click on a block to hear the sound, click on the circles at the bottom and they sing a song.
Rhyme-a-Week
WIL's A-Rhyme-a-Week phonological awareness program features 28 different nursery rhymes.
How Many Syllables
Click on the number that represents how many syllables in each animal's name
Clap and Count Practice
Clap out the word and count the syllables. Click on the words that tell that number of syllables.
Crankophone
The game is an exercise in auditory discrimination of medial vowels to discriminate and segment all three phonemes in CVC words and to represent in writing the three phonemes in CVC words.
Rhyming Match
Select a location to visit, and find the rhyming words.
Rhyming
Several practice activities
Gus and Inky Learn about rhyming words
Online lesson and activity