Preschool Professional Development

Importance of phonological awareness

Get It, Got It, Go

In each area of Get It, Got It, Go, determine the mean for each subtest for special education students ONLY, based on their ages.

Record the means on the recording sheet.

Reflection

Looking at the State means for the 2008-2009 school year, how do your scores compare?

What instructional strategies made the most impact?

When looking ahead to the 2011-2012 school year, what is your goal for yourself? How can we accomplish this goal?

Steps to Becoming a Reader

Why?! Becoming phonologically aware prepares

children for later reading instruction, including instruction in phonics, word analysis, and spelling (Adams, Foorman, Lundburg, & Beeler, 1998; Chard, Simmons, & Kameenui, 1998).

The most common barrier to learning early word reading skills is the inability to process language phonologically (Liberman, Shankweller, & Liberman, 1998).

What is Phonological Awareness? Understanding that oral language

can be divided into smaller components and can be manipulated.

Lies on a continuum. Most sophisticated is phonemic

awareness.

Important because:

Researchers have shown that this strong relationship between phonological awareness and reading success persists throughout school (Calfee, Lindamood, & Lindamood, 1973; Shankweiler et al., 1995).

Why is this Important?

What We Discovered

Concept of spoken word was lacking Difficulty with production Systematic instruction increased

understanding and built on one another

Easy to plan and modify Introduce in whole group, modify in

small group, and practice in centers

Make-It, Take-It!

Final Thoughts

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s the bluebird of happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com