Phonemic Awareness = Phonics

Phonemic Awareness w The understanding that spoken words are made up of a series of discrete sounds Is different from Phonics: w Phonics Deals with the learning of sound-spelling relationships and is associated with printed words.

Phonemic Awareness w Oral Activities w Playful in nature w Engaging way of discriminating the sounds w Understanding that words are composed of small units (phonemes)

Phonemic Awareness Goal w To break down and manipulate spoken words

Phonological Awareness Continuum w Rhyming/Alliteration w Sentence Segmenting Texas Teaching Continuum w Compound Word Segmenting w Syllable Blending and Segmenting w Onset-Rime Blending and Segmenting w Blending and Segmenting Individual Phonemes

Rhyme w Rhyming with children is one of the strongest methods for building phonemic awareness. Poetry helps a lot:

Compound Word Segmenting Segmenting and blending compounds to build understanding that words can be made up of two different words. Using your two fists: Hold them together and say “thumbtack”. Separate them as you say, “thumb” “tack”. Then put them back together “thumbtack”

Syllable Blending and Segmenting w Blending syllables to form words w Segmenting words into syllables w Counting syllables (I.e., clapping and tapping)

Onsets and Rimes Onset: The first consonant sound of a syllable Rime: The rest from the vowel back w Blending: /b/ +/at/ = bat Segmenting bat = /b/ + /at/

Manipulating Individual Phonemes bat: /b/ae/t/ see: /s/i/

Alphabetic Principle w Letters are normally matched with sounds that correlate to speech.

Phonics Instruction w Follows the same sequence as Phonemic Awareness

What is Book Knowledge? w General knowledge of print and book concepts

Print Concepts w Print is read from left to right w What letters, words, and sentences are w There are spaces between words w Functions of capital letters and punctuation w Oral language can be written and then read

Environmental Print w Represents one of the first types of print children learn to recognize w Introduces children to the relationship between print and reading.

Book Concepts w Knowledge that a book is for reading w Function and location of the front, back, top, and bottom of a book w How to turn pages properly w Where to begin reading w Functions of print and pictures and their relationship to each other w Knowledge of the author, and illustrator