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Teaching Phonemic Awareness:
Critical Phonemic Awareness skills - Sound Isolation

Example Instruction: First Sound Identification

  • Specific Skill: First sound identification using /e/ as an example
Skills taught prior to this clip were:
  • Sound and word discrimination

Things to look for in this clip:
What the teacher does:
  • Uses materials effortlessly
  • Provides many opportunities for both group and individual student responses
  • Monitors student behavior closely and confirms student understanding by repeating the correct response
What the student does:
  • Produces and practices the new skill multiple times
  • Answers with highly accurate responses in group and individually
  • Participates actively during instruction


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The next instructional objectives for this group:

  • First-sound isolation with new sounds
  • Identify final sounds
  • Segment individual sounds in words

Instructional Materials used in this clip:
Simmons, D. & Kame'enui, E. (1999) Optimize. Eugene, OR: College of Education, Institute for Development of Educational Achievement, University of Oregon.



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