Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to understand that words are made up of individual sounds that can be manipulated in multiple ways, including blending, segmenting, substituting, deleting, and isolating. The University of Oregon explains how important phonemic awareness is for reading in an alphabet-based writing system. Students need to recognize that words have individual sounds so that when they are reading, they can recognize these individual sounds, further understand phonics, and be able to recognize which phonemes go along with which letters. Phonological awareness, as Patricia M. Cunningham addresses in Phonics They Use, is closely related to phonemic awareness, but focuses on separating sentences into words and words into syllables. Both of these forms of awareness allow children to recognize that reading and writing can be broken down and understood in little parts (phonemes, syllables, words, etc.) rather than just as a whole. Understanding phonemes and their manipulation will not only help with speech, but it will help with literacy.
http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/pa/pa_what.php
http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/pa/pa_what.php
Activity 1In this activity, students will play a game similar to bingo. All that you need are the Drop and Say triangles (one for each student), the Drop and Say picture cards, games pieces (counters, etc.), and the answer key. The students will follow the following steps:
(Grade Level: K-1) http://www.fcrr.org/documents/sca/GK-1/PA_Final_Part5_Phoneme_Manipulating.pdf |
Activity 2In this activity, students will match initial phonemes in words. You will need multiple copies of the backpacks, picture cards, student sheets, and crayons or markers. The following steps should be followed:
(Grade Level: K-1) http://www.fcrr.org/documents/sca/GK-1/PA_Final_Part3_Phoneme_Matching.pdf |