What to Teach with Phonemic Awareness Phonemic awareness skills are best taught when combined with instruction in the following three reading components. As you are helping students learn phonemic awareness skills, also provide instruction in these components. Phonics: Phonemic awareness skills contribute to phonics skills. They both relate to the sounds of, and within, words….
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What Does Not Work for Phonemic Awareness Instruction With so many sub-skills and potentially effective strategies, it might seem that just about anything you do will help students develop their phonemic awareness skills. This is not true. Some strategies, and associated activities, either do not contribute to phonemic awareness or are only minimally effective. Strategy…
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What Works for Phonemic Awareness Instruction As long as you follow the principles of phonemic awareness instruction, you can devise and implement many different strategies that will help students develop their phonemic awareness skills. In fact, you will want to use many different strategies. When you use multiple strategies while focusing on the same phonemes…
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Principles for Phonemic Awareness Instruction The research is quite clear about principles for phonemic awareness instruction. We will look at instructional strategies next, but all effective strategies and instructional activities are based on the same three principles, as follows. Instruction needs to be explicit and systematic. Instruction should focus on only one or two phonemes…
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9 Skills of Phonemic Awareness Phonemic Awareness is more than listening for sounds in words. Rather, it is one primary skill that is reinforced and demonstrated through eight sub-skills. Primary Skill: Identification Identification is the ability to break words into individual sounds. Example: What three sounds do you hear in the word “cheese”? If a…
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What Is Phonemic Awareness? Phonemic awareness is a strong predictor of a child’s ability to read well. Children with strong phonemic awareness skills are more likely to read on grade level than children without this necessary skill. Phonemic awareness is, in great part, a necessary precursor to phonics, print vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. So what…
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