Be a Word Wizard:

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Be a Word Wizard

• Add Word Magic to Early Literacy Skills Taught in
  Your Classroom

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Presented by Sheri Hoffman, Kindergarten
teacherand Diane Highnam, Speech
clinicianPrice Lab SchoolUniversity of
Northern Iowa
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Phonemic awareness is the realization that words
are made up of individual sounds.
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Phonemic Awareness Skills

• Important building blocks for reading
  development.
• Can teach skills in classroom, small groups, or
  to individual students

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4 skill areas of instruction

• Rhyme
• Segment
• Blend
• Manipulate

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Rhyme

• Identify words that rhyme
• Produce words that rhyme

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Rhyming Bean Bag Toss

• Teacher says Child says
• hat cat, sat, mat
• man fan, tan, can
• dog log, fog, frog
• chair bear, care, fair
• car far, star, tar
• door more, four

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Segment

• Segment words into syllables
• Segment words into sounds
• Identify the beginning sound of a word
• Identify the ending sound of a word
• Identify the middle sound of a word

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Segmenting Words Musical Chairs
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Blend

• Blend syllables into words
• Blend sounds into words

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Name blending game

• Teachers directions
• J-o-n can stand up.
• M-ar-k can get a blue piece of paper.
• J-oe can bring me the markers.
• K-ay-l-a can get the tape.
• Z-o-e can draw a dog.
• C-ae-l-i-n can draw a tree.

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Manipulate

• Delete syllables from words
• Substitute syllables in words
• Delete sounds from words
• Substitute sounds in words
• Add sounds to words

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Add-a-Sound Bingo
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Curriculum Integration
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Phonemic Awareness Classroom Planning Sheet
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Word Wizards Groups

• 20-25 minutes twice a week
• Combination of large and small groups
• Led by speech clinician university students
• Classroom teacher very involved

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Word Wizards Groups

• Use familiar materials from classroom
• Use music and movement
• Use variety of activities

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Word Wizards Groups

• Collect data to track childrens progress
• Group children purposefully
• Provide pre- and post-tests

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Phonemic Awareness Progress Charts

• Administer pre-test in fall
• Create chart showing results for each child
• Conduct Word Wizard groups in classroom
• Administer post-test in spring
• Update chart

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Phonological Awareness Screening Instrumentby
Cliff Highnam and Ken Bleile

• Rhyming
• Letter Names
• Segmenting Words into Syllables
• Segmenting Words into Phonemes
• Blending
• Isolation
• Deletion

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Progress Charts
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
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Hickory Dickory Dock
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Itsy Bitsy Spider
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Itsy Bitsy Spider
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Humpty Dumpty
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Green Eggs and Ham