Pre-Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that phonemic awareness, which is one of the best predictors of a child's reading success, involves manipulating the sounds of spoken words. The paper also introduces the six skills of phonemic isolation, identity, categorization, blending, segmentation and deletion. In addition, the paper presents a detailed lesson to teach each of these six phonemic awareness skills to a class of pre-kindergarten aged children.

Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Assessment
Phoneme Identity
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Assessment
Phoneme Categorization
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Assessment
Phoneme Blending
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Assessment
Phoneme Segmentation
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Assessment
Phoneme Deletion
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Assessment
Phoneme Identity with Phonics
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Assessment
Phoneme Segmentation with Phonics
Objectives and Goals
Materials
Anticipatory Set
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Assessment

From the Paper:

"Read "My Name is Alice". Let the children know that there is a special reason why the characters in this book are specific places and sell specific things. Tell them that you want them to listen closely as you read the book and see if they can discover what the special reason is.
"Ask the children why they think the Alice was from Alaska and sold ants? The answer is because Alice, Alaska and ant all start with the /a/ sound. Go through several of the pages and call out three of the alliteration words on each page."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cowen, J. E. (2003). A balanced approach to beginning reading instruction. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association.
• Farstrup, A. E., & Samuels, S. J. (Eds.). (2002). What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction 3rd ed. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association.
• Lundberg, I., Olofsson, A. & Wall, S. (1980). Reading and spelling skills in the first school years predicted from phonemic awareness skills in kindergarten. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 21, 159 - 173.

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