Phonemic Awareness
Definition
Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate individual sound units (phonemes) in spoken language: to examine language independent of meaning, to see relationships between sounds in words, and to rearrange sounds to create new words. For example, the word chick is made up of three phonemes (/ch/ /i/ /k/*); it can be changed to the word pick by replacing /ch/ with /p/.
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Phonemic Awareness is the ability to recognize that words are made up of a set of sounds as well as the ability to manipulate those sounds. Phonemic awareness is NOT Phonics! It is solely auditory and involves words in print. A good tool to measure whether an activity is phonics or phonemic awareness is this: If you could do it with your eyes closed or in the dark, by sound only, it is phonemic awareness. If it involves written words or letters it is phonics. The University of Oregon has some great resources on this particular topic. Check them out athttp://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/pa/
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Phonological Awareness: The awareness that spoken language is composed of separate words that make up sentences and that words are made up of syllables.
Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the sounds in spoken words.
Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound.
As Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in our spoken words, when children begin to be able to recognize the presence of phonemes, they are beginning their journey into reading. It is important to remember that phonemic awareness is not phonics and involves only the auditory senses. When searching for potential activities to use in the classroom, there are many simple tests that can be used to determine whether or not the activity is phonemic awareness. One such way to test these activities is to see if the activity can be done with your eyes closed, while listening to only the sounds, if this can be done it is phonemic awareness. If letters or written words are necessary for the activity then it is a phonics activity, not phonemic awareness.
Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the sounds in spoken words.
Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound.
As Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in our spoken words, when children begin to be able to recognize the presence of phonemes, they are beginning their journey into reading. It is important to remember that phonemic awareness is not phonics and involves only the auditory senses. When searching for potential activities to use in the classroom, there are many simple tests that can be used to determine whether or not the activity is phonemic awareness. One such way to test these activities is to see if the activity can be done with your eyes closed, while listening to only the sounds, if this can be done it is phonemic awareness. If letters or written words are necessary for the activity then it is a phonics activity, not phonemic awareness.
Strategies
These strategies are created in order to provide beginning readers with exposure to phonemic activities and to increase their phonological processing abilities.
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- Sound Boxes (Page 1)
- Sound Sorts (Page 3)
- Segmenting Sounds (Page 10)
- All Aboard! (Page 16)
- Oops, Wrong Rhyme (Page 14)
- Rhyming Picture Sort (Page 13)
- Blending Sounds (Page 5)
- Kinesthetic Activities (Page 14)
- Phonemic Activities for Reading Readiness (Page 8)
- Phoneme Identification with the ABC Chart (Page 7)
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This is a website for first grade resources. Activities for small groups are included!
Fun in First Grade by Jodi Southard |
What Students Should Know
Students who are phonemically aware are able to master the following tasks:
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Games and Activities
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Phonemic Awareness Activities
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/activities/phonemic.html Phonemic Awareness Reading Rockets http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/phonemic/ Sound Hop Activity: This activity focuses on helping students distinguish between the sounds in a words. The teacher assembles the rubber dots on the floor and uses duct tape to secure them. Before the students begin hopping, the teacher will give them a word to separate into the sounds that make up the word.The students will hop from one dot to another when the differentiate each of the sounds found in the word. This activity encourages students to listen carefully to each word and would be a great activity to use as group work or involve the entire classroom. This activity is considered phonemic awareness as it only involves the sounds found within the words and does not have the word or sounds written out during the activity. Students are able to learn and begin to recognize the phonemes in words while also being able to learn outside of their desks which can help kinesthetic learners more actively remember the lesson and what they learned about the sounds in words. Hula Hoop Activity: This is another activity that is great for kinesthetic learners! The teacher uses only pictures to show which words are going to be used and the students break down the sounds within the words by using the hula hoops. Once a picture is introduced, the children say the word that is associated with the picture and then separate the word into sounds. Each sound, or phoneme, is assigned to a student and as the student jumps into the hula hoop they say their sound in the order that they appear in the word. The students jump and say their sound right after the sound before them is completed, overall they say the sounds in order to pronounce the overall word. This activity allows for each child to have a turn and since it uses pictures instead of words, it is considered phonemic awareness. This activity could also be adapted to help children as they move on to counting and recognizing syllables in words. |