3rd Grade Phonological Awareness Review Mississippi Literacy Test Prep Bundle #1

3rd Grade Mississippi Literacy Test Prep Bundle #1

Working with Sounds: Phonological Awareness Review

Help struggling readers strengthen the sound skills they need to become more confident, accurate readers.

This 90-page printable literacy bundle provides focused practice with foundational phonological-awareness skills. Although many of these skills are introduced in kindergarten through second grade, some third-grade students still need explicit review and repeated practice before they can successfully decode more complex words.

The Mississippi Department of Education specifically notes that foundational reading instruction should be differentiated and that struggling readers may require more practice with these concepts.

This resource is ideal for:

• Third-grade reading intervention
• Small-group instruction
• Literacy centers
• Tutoring sessions
• Morning work
• Homework practice
• Homeschool instruction
• Beginning-of-the-year review
• Students performing below grade level

Skills Included

Students will practice:

• Counting syllables
• Identifying rhyming words
• Recognizing beginning, middle, and ending sounds
• Blending individual sounds to form words
• Segmenting words into individual sounds
• Deleting sounds from words
• Changing sounds to create new words
• Listening for differences between similar words
• Strengthening phonemic awareness and word-recognition skills

The pages feature clear directions, colorful visuals, child-friendly activities, and repeated practice that teachers and parents can use throughout the school year.

Why This Bundle Is Important

Students cannot decode unfamiliar words efficiently unless they can hear, identify, blend, segment, and manipulate the sounds within spoken words. These foundational abilities support the transition from recognizing individual sounds to reading and spelling complete words.

For struggling third-grade readers, weaknesses in these earlier skills can make grade-level phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension more difficult. This bundle gives students structured opportunities to revisit those skills without using materials that look overly juvenile.

It also helps teachers and parents:

• Identify specific sound-processing gaps
• Provide targeted intervention
• Reinforce skills through repetition
• Build reading confidence
• Prepare students for more advanced phonics and word-analysis work

Mississippi Standards Alignment

The current 2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for English Language Arts became effective for the 2025–2026 school year.