Teaching Phonemic Awareness:
Sequencing Phonemic Awareness skills
Examples of phonemic awareness skills:
- Sound and Word discrimination: What word doesn't
belong with the others: "cat", "mat", "bat", "ran"? "ran"
- Rhyming: What word rhymes with "cat"?
bat
- Syllable splitting: The onset of "cat"
is /k/, the rime is /at/.
- Blending: What word is made up of the sounds /k/ /a/ /t/?
"cat"
- Phonemic segmentation: What are the sounds
in "cat"? /k/ /a/ /t/
- Phoneme deletion: What is "cat" without the /k/?
"at"
- Phoneme manipulation: What word would you have if you
changed the /t/ in cat to an /n/? "can"
Curriculum Maps:
Phonemic awareness skills can be taught in a particular sequence
that maximizes student understanding and instructional efficiency. Phonemic
awareness is only taught in kindergarten and first grade. By the end of first
grade, students should have a firm grasp of phonemic awareness.
Curriculum maps list specific skills that relate to each big idea. Each skill
can be taught during at an optimal time during the school year.
Click here for an explanation
of how to read curriculum maps.
Link to Phonemic Awareness curriculum maps for each grade:
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