How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities

Research indicates a strong relationship between early phoneme awareness and later reading success, and it links some reading failure to insufficiently developed phoneme awareness skills. Intervention research clearly demonstrates the benefits of explicitly teaching phoneme awareness skills. Many children at risk for reading failure are in general education classrooms where phoneme awareness training is not part of their reading program. This article presents a set of developmental phoneme awareness training activities that the special educator can integrate collaboratively into existing kindergarten and first-grade reading programs. Instructional considerations Before preparing to conduct phoneme awareness activities in a general education setting, the special educator needs to become familiar with the method being used to teach reading and should observe the class in action. Phoneme awareness activities work well in classrooms where teachers implement shared reading. Literature Figure 1.

Popplet and Pizza So how does a pizza and attacking multi-syllabic words go together you are wondering? You don't eat a whole pizza at once, in one bite and if you don't know a long word (multi-syllabic word) you don't try to read the whole thing at once. You break it down (slice it up like a pizza) and read it (eat it) bite by bite! It's gotta be in kid language so they get it! :) My groups in grades 1-3 need a lot of practice with breaking words into syllables to try to read them. The kids are interested in anything done on the iPads, of course. With this app, you can create as many Popplets, or boxes, as you need. My first grade groups needed to go back and do some more work on story events. Students did a quick sketch in each box to represent what they would write about on their B-M-E page. I can see we will be using Popplet a lot!

Isolating Beginning Sounds Phoneme IsolatingDirections: I will say some words. Listen to the beginning sound of each word. Tell me the first sound of the word. Let me show you. Model: Listen to this word: jumpI hear a /j/ sound at the beginning of jump. Share: Let us say the word together: hopWhat is the sound at the beginning of hop? Assess: Say each word after me and tell me the beginning sound.mousefishteethbatgoat Phoneme Matching Directions: I will say some words. Model: Listen to these words: keep, king, jump.Two of the words begin with the same sound; keep begins with the same sound as king /k/. Share: Let us say the words together. Assess: Listen to each group of words and tell me which two have the same beginning sound.

Informative article with good information for Curriculum and Instruction - Student Center Activities, Grades 2-3 - Student Center Activities, Grades 2-3 Frequently Asked Questions about the K-5 Student Center Activities. Introduction During the spring 2004 Florida Reading First school site visits, staff from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) determined that teachers may benefit from classroom materials that would be immediately useful in implementing independent student center activities. In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. The 2-3 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: 1. The first two books contain Activity Plans and Activity Masters that are ready for immediate use in classrooms. Accessing Professional Development DVD, Teacher Resource Guide, and Student Center Activities The Teacher Resource Guide is posted below as a PDF file.

Patti's Activities The Task Children identify words that rhyme in a series of activities. For example, "Put your thumbs up if these two words rhyme--pail-tail or cow-pig?" Activities Snap and Clap Rhymes Begin with a simple clap and snap rhythm. Small Group Phonemic Awareness Activities Click on the picture above to download again for FREE Many of you wondered what activities I placed in the folders behind each section. Well, here is my first unit for this notebook. This unit contains activities for each of the stages of phonemic awareness (sentence segmenting, rhyme and alliteration, blending and segmenting syllables, onset rime blending and segmentation, phoneme blending and segmentation, and phoneme deletion and manipulation.) They are very easy to implement and need very little preparation. These activities are perfect for small groups, but can also be used in whole group or individual settings. You can check out this unit by clicking below.

Phonemic Awareness Notes I love teacher blogs! This is fun and creative. Online rhying dictionary. Type in word and

This article describes the components of phonemic awareness and provides activities that special educators can use to provide this training to at risk students. by jortega Mar 12

This article provides an overview of how phonemic awareness can be taught in a general education classroom. It goes on to say that phonemic awareness should be integrated in to the existing classroom environment/activities. by kjames15 Mar 10

Good overview of onset and rime activities. by dipperyt Mar 9

A great article discussing how to teach phonemic awareness correctly in the classroom by adamrosskuhn Mar 8

This article describes the components of phonemic awareness and provides activities that special educators can use to provide this training to at-risk students. I don't thnk you have to be a "special" educator or have "at-risk" students to use these activites in your classroom. by mcussen Mar 2