Removing Sounds: What's Left?

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn to remove a sound from a word and hear what new word is left.

🌟 Let's Start

Here is a word magic trick! Say sand. Now take away the /s/ sound. What is left? and! You just made a new word by removing a sound. This is called sound deletion.

📚 New Concept

Sound deletion means taking away one sound from a word to make a new word.

Remove the first sound:

• bus without /b/ = us
• meat without /m/ = eat
• sit without /s/ = it
• hat without /h/ = at
• farm without /f/ = arm

Remove the last sound:

• cart without /t/ = car
• seat without /t/ = sea
• hand without /d/ = han

This is like a word puzzle. You are training your brain to hear every sound in a word!

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Say cat. Remove the /k/ sound. What is left?
2. Say man. Remove the /m/ sound. What is left?
3. Say ball. Remove the /b/ sound. What is left?

Click to see answers

1. cat without /k/ = at.
2. man without /m/ = an.
3. ball without /b/ = all.

💡 Remember

When you remove a sound from a word, you often get a new word! This shows you that words are made of separate sounds that can be moved around.