3 Fan Favoriate Phonemic Awareness Ideas (that are free)
October 11, 2021
What is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemic Awareness (PA) is:
- the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds
- essential to learning to read in an alphabetic writing system, because letters represent sounds or phonemes. Without phonemic awareness, phonics makes little sense
- fundamental to mapping speech to print. If a child cannot hear that "man" and "moon" begin with the same sound or cannot blend the sounds /rrrrrruuuuuunnnnn/ into the word "run", he or she may have great difficulty connecting sounds with their written symbols or blending sounds to make a word
- essential to learning to read in an alphabetic writing system
- a strong predictor of children who experience early reading success
Why is it important?
- It requires readers to notice how letters represent sounds. It primes readers for print
- It gives readers a way to approach sounding out and reading new words
- It helps readers understand the alphabetic principle (that the letters in words are systematically represented by sounds)
...but difficult:
- Although there are 26 letters in the English language, there are approximately 40 phonemes, or sound units, in the English language
- Sounds are represented in 250 different spellings (e.g., /f/ as in ph, f, gh, ff)
- The sound units (phonemes) are not inherently obvious and must be taught. The sounds that make up words are "coarticulated;" that is, they are not distinctly separate from each other
What Does the Lack of Phonemic Awareness Look Like?
Children lacking phonemic awareness skills cannot:
- group words with similar and dissimilar sounds (mat, mug, sun)
- blend and split syllables (f oot)
- blend sounds into words (m_a_n)
- segment a word as a sequence of sounds (e.g., fish is made up of three phonemes, /f/ , /i/, /sh/)
- detect and manipulate sounds within words (change r in run to s)
My students love everything I bring them from Make, Take and Teach, these are great to add to your guided reading toolbox.
This cheat sheet from Clever Classroom is a great help when planning what direction I need to move in or if I'll looking for an idea on how to make a PA just a little bit more challanging.
This year I can't seem to find enough rhyming tasks. Be it for my second graders or my kindergartens who just need more, these have been a great addition to my toolbox and a great jumping-off to change it up a bit.
I hope your students find these as Fan Favorites as mine do!!!
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