Teaching Phonemic Awareness:
Critical Phonemic Awareness skills - Phonemic Segmentation

Example Instruction: Phonemic Segmentation

• Specific Skill: Segmenting the individual sounds in words with letter tiles using one-syllable phonetically regular words as examples (e.g., mop, sad)

Skills taught prior to this clip were:

• Letter-sound correspondences of the most common sound associated with individual letters
• Blending of separate phonemes

Things to look for in this clip:

What the teacher does:
	Previews how to segment words into phonemes Uses finger to track the individual sounds in words Provides reminders to students to segment words
What the student does:
	Confirms responses by sounding out words Says sounds corresponding to letter tiles Responds in unison with teacher

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The next instructional objectives for this group:

• Continue sequential segmentation with new sounds
• Spelling single-syllable regular words correctly and independently

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.