Phonological Awareness

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Phonological Awareness

• Ability to identify and manipulate oral sounds
  and segments in spoken language that are separate
  from word meaning

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Systematic Tasks for Developing Phonological
Awareness

• Strategy 1 Hear Rhymes
• Strategy 2 Hear Similarities
• Strategy 3 Hear Differences
• Strategy 4 Hear Alliteration
• Strategy 5 Hear Intonation
• Strategy 6 Hear Syllables

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Wee Willie Winkie,Running through the
town,Upstairs and downstairs in his night
gown.Rapping at the window, Crying through the
lock.Are all the children in their beds?
Its past eight oclock!
Wee Willie Winkie
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Strategy 1 Hear Rhymes
Listen
Which words rhyme? town, gown, lock
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Strategy 2 Hear Similarities
Listen
Which words are the same? upstairs, downstairs,
upstairs
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Strategy 3 Hear Differences
Listen
Which word is different? lock, lock, oclock
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Strategy 4 Hear Alliteration
Listen
What is the same in each word? Wee Willie
Winkie
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Strategy 5 Hear Intonations
Listen
What words sound different? Are all the children
in their beds? Its past eight oclock !
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Strategy 6 Hear Syllables
Listen
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Phonemic Awareness
Ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the
sounds in spoken words
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Systematic Tasks for Developing Phonemic Awareness

• Strategy 1 Phoneme Isolation
• Strategy 2 Phoneme Identity
• Strategy 3 Phoneme Categorization
• Strategy 4 Phoneme Blending
• Strategy 5 Phoneme Segmentation
• Strategy 6 Phoneme Deletion
• Strategy 7 Phoneme Addition
• Strategy 8 Phoneme Substitution

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Look at the cat!
I wonder why the cat is so fat?
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Strategy 1 Phoneme Isolation
Listen
What is the first sound in cat?
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Strategy 2 Phoneme Identification
Listen
What sound is the same in cat, car, and come?
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Strategy 3 Phoneme Categorization
Listen
cap cat mat Which word does not belong?
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Strategy 4 Phoneme Blending
Listen
What is this word?
/k/ /a/ /t/
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Strategy 5 Phoneme Segmentation
Listen
How many sounds in mat?
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Strategy 6 Phoneme Deletion
Listen
What is cat without /k/?
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Strategy 7 Phoneme Addition
Listen
What is the word if you add /r/ to the start of
/at/?
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Strategy 8 Phoneme Substitution
Listen
The word is hat.
Change the /h/ in hat to /f/.
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Explicit Systematic Phonics

• Direct, sequential teaching of the relationship
  between the sounds of spoken language (phonemes)
  and the symbols of written language (graphemes)

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Used with Permission Educator Preparation for
Achievement in Reading (2004) Lexia Learning
Systems, Lincoln, MA
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Pre-Kindergarten
Which word starts like your name?
Used with Permission Educator Preparation for
Achievement in Reading (2004) Lexia Learning
Systems, Lincoln, MA
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Kindergarten
Decode and spell CVC words.
Associate sounds-symbols.
Recognize sounds as same or different. Recognize
and produce rhyming words. Blend phonemes and
onset-rime. Segment and count phonemes in words.
Phonics Learning Sequence
Used with Permission Educator Preparation for
Achievement in Reading (2004) Lexia Learning
Systems, Lincoln, MA
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First Grade
Used with Permission Educator Preparation for
Achievement in Reading (2004) Lexia Learning
Systems, Lincoln, MA
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Second Grade
Used with Permission Educator Preparation for
Achievement in Reading (2004) Lexia Learning
Systems, Lincoln, MA
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Third Grade
Apply knowledge of phonics to spell unfamiliar
words.
Apply knowledge of phonics to automatically
decode unfamiliar words in a variety of literary
forms.
Phonics Learning Sequence
Used with Permission Educator Preparation for
Achievement in Reading (2004) Lexia Learning
Systems, Lincoln, MA
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Explicit Systematic Phonics

• Direct, sequential teaching of the relationship
  between the sounds of spoken language (phonemes)
  and the symbols of written language (graphemes)