The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds – phonemes – in spoken words

Phonemics Awareness

Main focus is on phonemes / sounds

Deals with spoken language

Mostly auditory

Students work with manipulating sounds and sounds in words

Phonics

Main focus is on graphemes / letters and their sounds

Deals with written language / print

Both visual and auditory

Students work with reading and writing letters according to their sounds, spelling patterns, and phonological structure

words

syllables

onset-rime division

phonemes

blending, segmentation, matching, deletion

Preschool

Kindergarten through second grade

Basic and below grade level readers

Isolation IdentifyCategorizationBlendingSegmentationDeletionAdditionSubstitution

Children recognize individual sounds in a word.

I Do It: The first sound in the word bug is…

We Do It: Let’s say the first sound in….

You Do It: I Spy

Children recognize the same sounds in different words

I Do It: What sound is the same in…

We Do It: What sound is the same in…

You Do It: Dr. Seuss ABC’s

Children recognize the word in a set of three or four words that has the

“odd” sound.

I Do It: What doesn’t belong…

We Do It: What doesn’t belong…

You Do It: One of these things…

Children listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes, and then combine the phonemes to form a word.

Then they write and read the word.

I Do It: What word is /p/ /a/ /n/

We Do It: What word is /j/ /a/ /m/

You Do It: Guess my word

Children break a word into its separatesounds, saying each sound as they

tap out or count it. Then they write and read the sounds.

How many sounds are in the word fish?

Try: Elkonin Sound Boxes

Children recognize the word that remains

when a phoneme is removed fromanother word.

What is price without the /p/?

Children make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word.

What word do you have if you add /s/ to the beginning of park?

Children substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.

I Do It: The word is ____ change the /g/ to /n/ the new word is…

We Do It: The word is ____ change /b/ to /w/

You Do It: Can a cat become a fox?

Which methods have the biggest impact?

Phoneme awareness is necessary, but not sufficient.

Phoneme awareness does not require extensive teaching time.

Phoneme awareness should be assessed in kindergarten.

Syllables- Name & Motion

Recognize initial Sounds/Alliteration- Going on a picnic, Name another word that begins with (s)

Blending- The Sounds in the word (Wheels on the bus)

Rime/Rhyme- Complete the sentence, Rhyme away story, Hinky Pinky ( UPPER GRADES!!!)

Songs

Nursery Rhymes and Poems

Tongue Twisters

Books