Phonological Awareness – Phoneme deletion

Patricia Esteves, Halina Rose and Sajia Rahman

Background Information

• Topic : Phonological Awareness – Phoneme Deletion

• Grade: late grade 1

• Materials: Take Away the A by Michael Escoffier and Kris di Giacomo

Alphabet manipulatives

Student card game worksheet

By: Michael Escoffier (author) & Kris di Giacomo (illustrator)

c

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c a r da r d

h a n d h a n d

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A c t i v i t y

Accommodations/Adaptations

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Extension Activities

Accommodations/Adaptations

Partners – students of different strengths will be paired together

Manipulatives – use of manipulative to make the concept more concrete for

students

Worksheets – range in levels of difficulty

Blank sets of cards – for students who require a challenge to create their own

cards

Extension Ideas

• Card game: have students play a game using the cards they created in the

previous lesson

• Class book: have students create a class book by illustrating two words similar to

the book ‘Take Away the A”

• Chunky Monkey: A reading strategy to help students read words by breaking

them into ‘chunks’

Thank-you !