Phonological Awareness Virginia Standards of Learning for Phonemic

Phonological Awareness

Virginia Standards of Learning for Phonemic Awareness 1. 4 The student will orally identify and manipulate phonemes in syllables and multisyllabic words. First Grade: Volume 1, Page 11

“Without direct instructional support, phonemic awareness eludes roughly 25% of middle-class first grade students and substantially more of those who come from less literacy-rich backgrounds. ” (Adams, Foorman, Lundberg, Beeler, 1998)

Why is Phonemic Awareness Important? • Necessary to learn to read in an alphabetic written language system • The ability to pay attention to speech sound units is a necessary for phonics instruction • Poor phonological processing is a core cause of poor reading

Research on Phonemic Awareness • Can be developed through instruction • Doing so significantly accelerates reading and writing achievement • Increased skill in phonemic awareness may minimize the need for later remedial services (Adams, Foorman, Lundberg, & Beeler, 1998)

Phonological Awareness • Ability to attend to the sound structure of language • Phonemic awareness is one part of the umbrella term “phonological awareness”

Instructional Sequence for Phonological Awareness • • Listening and Rhyme Words and Syllables Onsets and Rimes Phonemes

Listening and Rhyme • Listening activities and rhyming activities help children develop an ear for sounds • Rhyme is considered an entry point for phonemic awareness • Link between rhyme and later reading and spelling achievement • Activities to develop listening and rhyme awareness

Hears separate words in sentences Hears syllables in words Hears onsets in words Hears rimes in words Hears individual phonemes in words

Words and Syllables • Word and syllable activities help children break language into smaller chunks • Activities to develop word and syllable awareness

Onset-Rime Awareness • Onset is the initial consonant or consonant cluster • Rime is the vowel and consonants that follow the onset • As children reach this level of phonological awareness begin to incorporate letters with activities • Activities to develop onset -rime awareness

Phonemic Awareness • Awareness that spoken words or syllables can be thought of as a sequence of phonemes cat = /c/ + /a/ + /t/ • Activities to develop phonemic awareness

Phonemic Awareness REA Video

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Phonological Awareness at Different Stages • Emergent readers are working on the prerequisites necessary for phonemic awareness (listening, rhyme, word and syllable awareness) • Beginning readers are learning how to blend and segment onset-rimes and phonemes • Instructional readers have achieved phonemic awareness

How is phonological awareness addressed in your literacy block?

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