1. Phonemic Awareness
By Stacey Freer

2. Lessons: 1. Rhyming Match - adapted from pg. 36
Tableau – a “freeze frame picture” of the children in the form of a concept - adapted from pg. 39
Silly Segmenting Words – adapted from pg. 52
Please see the next posting for my paper with the complete lesson plans, differentiation ideas, extensions, small group activities and center ideas.

3. Rhyming Match
Goal: Students will auditorally and visually match rhyming words.
Objective: I will match rhyming words.
Read a story with a lot of rhyming words, highlighting words as you read.
Draw pictorial representations and word on a large index card. (Need 4-5 rhyming sets.)
Shuffle words and pass out to several students.
Have children find the word that rhymes with their word.

4. Tableau Tableau – a “freeze frame picture” of a concept
Goal: While using known rhyming words, groups of students will write “What am I?” clues about their rhyming pair, while including tableau.
Objective: I will write “What am I?” clues and tableau to help others remember.
Read a “What am I?” type of book.
Review tableau. Get into groups of 5.
Options: Assign a word to rhyme with OR create a list of rhyming words
Students create a series of short sentences/clues to help others guess the rhyming pair. Get into a tableau to represent a rhyming word.
Other groups guess what the rhyming word is after the clues are read and the group is in their tableau.

5. Example of Tableau Lesson
Clues:
I am sometimes called a bucket.
I am used at the beach.
I rhyme with snail.
What am I? (Pail)

6. Silly Segmenting Words
Goal: Students will learn to segment words into syllables while clapping.
Objective: I will learn to segment words into syllables.
Create chart on the board. Demonstrate clapping my name.
Each child claps their name.
Children repeat the name and clap.
Repeat steps 3 & 4 for each child.
Review chart. Do you see any patterns, etc.?

7. Personally, I find that these lesson are most helpful for my Kindergarten classroom at:
Beginning of the Year:
- Rhyming Match
- Tableau – can use tableau technique for any subject, especially Social Studies and Science
Middle of the Year:
- Silly Segmenting

8. Questions?
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