Phonemic awareness is one of my favorite topics relating to literacy instruction. Studies of reading development have demonstrated that the acquisition of phonemic awareness is highly predictive of success in learning to read. It’s so important that our beginning readers have an understanding that spoken words are made of up individual speech sounds so that phonics instruction makes sense. Teaching phonemic awareness skills can be actually quite fun. There are tons of activities that you can use during your whole and small group instruction. Here are a few:
There are several skills which fall under the category of phonemic awareness and phonemic awareness awareness falls under a broader category known as phonological awareness. I’ve created this little video to help explain exactly what phonemic awareness is and its role in literacy development as well as demonstrate several activities that can be used to teach the skill of segmentation.
Here’s a graphic that I used during the video which depicts that explains the difference between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness. Feel free to download this pic.
Click the following link to download this graphic Phonological Awareness
When using the Bead Slide activity, you provide the student with a word and then he/she is to break the word apart into its individual sounds while moving a bead for each sound. I like to use this cheat sheet as I sometimes have a difficult time coming up with words off the top of my head.
Click the following link to download the 2-, 3- and 4- phoneme cheat sheet Phoneme Segmentation Words
The activities within the video are 4 of 15 hands-on activities designed to address phonemic awareness skills contained within the Response to Intervention Phonemic Awareness Activity Pack. This pack is available through my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
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