phonemic awareness
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Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to segment and manipulate the sounds of oral language.
It is not the same as phonics, which involves knowing how written letters relate to spoken sounds.
Research has shown that a child’s awareness of the sounds of spoken words is a strong predictor of his or her later success in learning to read -International Reading Association
7 Dimensions of Phonemic Awareness
1. The ability to hear syllables within a word2. The ability to to hear initial sounds or recognize
alliteration ( Sally Sells Seashells by the sea shore)3. The ability to distinguish rime and rhyme(Rime: hat cat
sat; Rhyme: great late bait)4. The ability to distinguish oddity (man money cat)5. The ability to blend sounds orally to make a word (/a/
+/t/=at)6. The ability to segment words orally (at=/a/+/t/)7. The ability to manipulate sounds orally to create new
words (Plug-/g/=Plu; Plu+/m/=Plum)-Devries
Scaffolding
By choosing books with alliteration, assonance, rhyme, repetition, onomatopoeia, and nonsense words educators help new readers, “develop an ear for the sounds within words” (Devries 2004).
Read aloud (model good reading, use expression)
Use Gestures (clap, tap, snap syllable and rhyme)
Vary reading materials (tongue twisters, nursery rhymes, poems, songs and music)
Use “concrete cues”-manipulatives (wicklund 2004)
Activities
Jump Rope JinglesChopping gameMatch Game
ISEL
Illinois Snapshot of Early LiteracyAssesses phonemic awareness, letter
recognition, and knowledge of letter soundsGiven three times a yearOn Target vs On Watch
Literature to support Phonemic Awareness
References
DeVries, B. A. (2011). Phonemic Awareness. Literacy assessment and intervention for the elementary classroom (pp. 76-100). Scottsdale, Ariz.: Holcomb Hathaway Publishers.
International Reading Association. (2012). Phonemic Awareness . Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading. Retrieved April 10, 2012, fromhttp://reading.org/General/AboutIRA/PositionStatements/PhonemicAwarenessPosition.aspx
Wicklund, B. (2004). Using scaffolding to teach phonological/phonemic awareness skills to english language learners Hamline University | Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hamline University | Saint Paul, Minnesota. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from www.hamline.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx? LinkIdentifier=id...