Phonemic Awareness
Here is the presentation which was used in the session.
Recording of the session is availabel here
You can see the prez full screen here - but do come back to this page for your comments
Here are the recommended sites to read more about phonemic awareness and also see the attached pdf
Teacher’s Guide to Pronouncing Sounds Correctly
A very nice overview is on this website.
More sites
http://www.linkslearning.org/
Phonemic Awareness Instruction
Also here is a note on Phonemic awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to distinguish the sounds, or phonemes, in spoken language as they relate to the written language. Phonemic awareness is not the same thing as phonics, but rather a precursor to understanding phonics, which is like a code for learning to sound out written words. Phonemic awareness is considered extremely important in the early stages of literacy and has been studied closely as it applies to early childhood education and the development of literacy skills. Researchers have determined that phonemic awareness is important because it requires readers to become aware of the sounds that letters represent and helps beginning readers better identify with the alphabet.
The English alphabet consists of 26 letters, but there are well over 26 sounds in the English language, each represented in print by a single letter or group of letters. Phonemic awareness is the auditory process of identifying the sounds so that later, the printed letters can be matched up with their proper sounds. In kindergarten and the primary grades of many schools, phonemic awareness is both taught and assessed as part of the process of learning to read. To teach phonemic awareness, children are introduced to the individual sounds of many different words before they are introduced to syllables. In other words, even though the word “hat” has only one syllable, it has three different sounds: /h/ /a/ (short a) /t/. Children who are taught to listen for and can hear the different sounds early on have proved to become stronger readers. There are many different exercises that can be done to help raise phonemic awareness. Working with rhyming words such as “hat” and “cat” and words that begin with the same sound such as “cat” and “car” can help children identify the auditory differences and similarities. Assessing phonemic awareness usually begins in Kindergarten, but sometimes as early as preschool. Teachers often present children with single letters to see if they know the sound or sounds that the letter makes.
Phonemic awareness is to make
Phonemic awareness is to make a child aware of the difference existing between reading and writing of any word. This can be demonstrated by emphasising the sound the first alphabet of any word makes and then spell the whole word. Eg. Cat can be read as Kaat.
It is important to build this awareness as it develops reading interest in a child as well as understanding the difference which exists in spelling a word and saying or reading a word.
Key learnings:
Make a child understand a word by using Auditory, Visual and feeling nature in him
Eg HOME, DOME, SOME
We isolate or identify the starting letters and then read the rest of the word
eg. COMBINE, COAL, KITE
We can manipulate, blend, segment, delete, add, subtract the sounds in a word for the children to understand. We take the example of their own favorite word and emphasise the difference compared to other words.
This reading interest can be developed by
1Faculty reading and interacting
2Children reading alone
3Children reading to each other
Other options are
1Recorded Interaction
2Child recording reading
Reading and writing can be done by
1 Faculty writing what children want
2. Children writing
3Children copying from each other.
Plan to introduce reading where aunty takes s Reader Rabbit book series after snack time around 10.45 to 11 and read 2 pages.. I introduce any two words which have starting same sound, and two words with ending same sounds and ask them whether they can find the same in their books. Eg . son, sun or rabbit, bit etc
My thoughts
Phoenemic Awareness is the abilty to distinguish between the different sounds. It is an auditroy process where the focus is on listening and identifying different sounds.As we focus on listening to sounds and identiying sounds , the relation between the sound and the letters can be established by sayingthe sound andat the same time representing it by writing.We can focus on sounds by c For e.g cat - if we split it we say the first sound then the 3rd sound and then come to the middle sound. so we say kaat.
My learnings
a. to say the word continuously not k/a//t/ but as kaat
b. we are not foucssing only on sounds first and then on letters it has to be said and represented by writing also -suppose if then we are foucssing on 1 sound a day and the sound is /m/ then when we hear the sound/m/ we say it aloud and write it also - mat- say m in mat and write.We write it , children copy it, and we write what children want.
c. Fixed routine for reading daily. Where faculty reads children listen, children are reading to self and childrenare reading to each otehr. The same book needs to be read many times for awareness to happen.
My plan
1. Continue with the wallword- catch the sounds and add in the word wall.
2. Read a book -(9.30-10..00) fixed as reading time following the 3 process
3. Introduce calendar- each day focusisng ondifferent sounds - so foucs on those sounds-
4. These sounds willbe like ticket for them to go out of class. take stationary etc. So if we say todays sound is/m/ then in the ticket they need to say the words with the sounds and then write it and move ahead.
5. Initially starting sounds thenmoving to end sounds and the sound in the middle.
6. Word bank- Write the different words that they say faculty write, they write after copying put in the bank end of the week clear the bank and use tehse words to make different sentences.
Phonic awareness is an
Phonic awareness is an auditory process which help to distinguish the different sounds of letters, sounds in words, starting sounds of words which may be of same sound with different letter or simillar sound with same letter etc etc. If we focus on the sounds of letters and words which help us to identify the same and help us to read. While focusing the sound of the letter we can show the letter b y writing and it help to understand the relation between the sound of the letters and which letter comes
during spliting of a sound in a word we must start with the first sound and then go to the last sound then comes to the middle sound, we must not bring in phonic awareness in the sequence reading of a word which may be confusing to read, instead read the word in whole language like cat instead of kk- aa, hat
we can introduce the first sound and one sound at a time and can replace the first sound with similar sound with different letter, starting sound different with different letter, last sound same or different , finding a similar sound starting with the same word etc
through reading together, fac reading and others listen, children reading alone and with partners can be part of our session
through module we can introduce more auditory activitys like finding a similar sound words, changing the first sound of a word in mat - with p, k, t, s, ---replacing the last sound in a word,
\identifying sounds of each letter
through singing a song on the vegies during fruty time --
vvvvvvegies ddelicious vvvegies
you are the only ffffood that I aaaddore
In ssssalad or cccury
you can cccount me in for mmmore and mmmore
finding more such song with different letter sound
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