Literacy Night PHENOMENAL Time With

PHONEMIC AWARENSS

What is Phonemic Awareness?

• Phonemic Awareness is not Phonics.• Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear the

individual phonemes (sounds) in spoken words.

• Phonological Awareness is the ability to hear syllables, rhymes, and individual sounds.

• Phonemic Awareness is part of Phonological Awareness.

Importance of Phonemic Awareness

• Children who cannot hear and work with the phonemes of spoken words will have a difficult time learning how to relate these phonemes to a letter in the alphabet, or all of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, such as f, ph, and gh when they see them in written words.

Phonemic Awareness Activities

Early readers can show they have phonemic awareness in several ways:• Recognizing the first phoneme (sound)in a word- ex.

D-og (Use a pocket chart with pictures and letters)• isolating and saying the first or last sound in a word.

(Mystery Words- Say three or four words that begin with the same sound- basket, ball, big, boat)

• “I Spy Game”- I spy with my little eyes something you are wearing that starts with a /p/ pants, /s/socks

Phonemic Awareness Activities• Stretchy names- with a rubber band

– Model with a large rubber band how to stretch out a word as the word is said. /mmmm-/aaaa-/nnnn/

– Stretch out children’s names by saying name slowly. Then say name quickly by clapping

– Song- to teach Phonemic Segmentation Listen, listen to my word,Then tell me all the sounds you heard: (race)/r/ is one sound/a/ is two/s/ is last in race it’s trueThank you for listening to my word and telling all the sounds you heard!

Phonemic Awareness Activities

• Rhyming- -Read rhyming books- “Down By the Bay” By

Raffi-Read and discuss beginning sounds in

words and rhyming words.- Rhyming Word Sit Down game - Children

walk around in a big circle taking one step each time rhyming words are said by someone. Then the adult says a word that doesn’t rhyme and the children sit down.

Phonemic Awareness Activities

• Rhyming:– Nursery Rhymes:Hickory Dickory Dock the mouse ran up the clock.– Authors of Rhyming Books: Dr. Seuss, Bill Martin

Jr., Rosemary Wells (Noisy Nora), Audrey Wood ( Silly Sally), Jim Aylesworth, Raffi, and Deborah Guarino ( Is Your Mama a Llama?)

THANK YOUThank you for coming to Literacy Night. Have a

PHENOMENAL time practicing Phonemic Awareness with your child.

BOOK FAIR- Please visit the Book Fair on your way out.