Phonemic+Awareness

=Practice = Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken words. Research shows that it is one of the strongest predictors of a child’s future reading ability.

Phonemic Awareness Skills
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 * Rhyming – What word rhymes with “cat?" bat
 * Syllable Segmentation and Blending – The syllables in “tiger” are /ti/ /ger/.
 * Onset/Rime Segmentation and Blending – The onset of “cat” is /k/, the rime is /at/.
 * Phoneme Segmentation – What are the sounds in “cat?" /k/ /a/ /t/
 * Phoneme Blending – What word is made up of the sounds /k/ /a/ /t/? “cat”
 * Phoneme Deletion – What is “cat” without the /k/? “at”
 * Phoneme Manipulation – What word would you have if you changed the /t/ in cat to an /n/? “can”

The Struggling Reader - Interventions That Work - J. David Cooper 372.4 COO

Videos
Using Interactive Writing to Strengthen Your Students' Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills - 15149-2 Using Onsets and Rimes and Manipulation of Text to Strenthen Your Students' Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills - 15154-2 Using the "Making Words" Strategy to Strenthen Your Students' Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills - 15158-2

=Web Resources = [|Patti's Activities] Good site for minilessons [|Teaching Tips: Phonemic Awareness] Teaching tips [|LDOnline: How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities] Good reference for understanding of phonemic awareness [|Teaching Phonemic Awareness] Activities for each stage of phonemic awareness Good explanation and activities for older students [|Clifford the Big Red Dog: Sound Match Activity] Sound Match Game [|Transport to Reading] Phoneme Substitution Games