It is important because
Miss Mansour's Class
Phonemic Awareness
What is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemic awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
Why Is It Important?
It is important because it will teach students to segment and blend which will greatly benefit their reasoning. If not properly learned, a reading problem can occur later on.
Phoneme Split & Say
If a student struggles in phonemic segmenting and blending, this remediation would work for them. With this activity, students will be able to use Elkonin Box picture cards to work on breaking down the sound of a word. In doing so, they will practice pausing and then blending words quickly to make a completed word.
Activity Directions:
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Place the Elkonin Box picture cards in a stack and the counters on a flat surface.
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Working in pairs, student one selects an Elkonin Box picture card and says the name of the picture.
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Says the word again, pausing between sounds while slowly moving a counter in each box (e.g., “/f/ /i/ /sh/”).
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Student two repeats the sounds while touching each counter, then blends the word while saying it quickly and sliding a finger under all the counters (e.g., “/f/ /i/ /sh/, fish”).
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Continue until all cards are completed.
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Peer evaluation
What's My Word?
If a student struggles in phoneme blending, this remediation would work for blending phonemes into words. With this activity, students will be able to hear the individual sounds in a word and record which word they think is on their sheet. The goal of this activity is for students to stop and analyze the sound they are hearing.
Activity Directions:
1. Set up the listening center. Provide the student with a student sheet.
2. Student listens to tape. After a word has been segmented, student turns off tape, blends sounds together, finds picture of the word.
3. Writes the number “1” in the box next to the picture.
4. Continues with the second word, identifies the word, locates the picture and writes number “2” in that box.
5. Continues until all the pictures are identified.
6. Self-check (provide answer key)
Click on each picture for the link!
Reference
Second and Third Grade. Retrieved April 18,
2021, from https://fcrr.org/student-center-
activities/second-and-third-grade
Reference
Second and Third Grade. Retrieved April 18,
2021, from https://fcrr.org/student-center-
activities/second-and-third-grade
Things To Remember:
Advice #1
Encourage family members to read to the child. Reading aloud often helps the listener to internalize the story structure.
Advice #2
Have students make drawings or illustrations of the major events in a story. This can be the basis for retelling the story.
Advice #3
Retell a familiar story by changing certain key elements. Then have students correct the retelling.
Advice #4
Provide direct instruction in invented spelling by modeling for students and encouraging them to spell words by breaking words in syllables.
