phonemicawareness

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phonemicawareness

Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken words. The basis of reading and spelling, phonemic awareness deals with the sounds of spoken language while phonics instruction deals with the relationship between the spoken and written language.

Phonemic Awareness

1. Isolating sounds

2. Word, syllable and phoneme counting

3. Blending sounds

4. Identification of sound positions

5. Segmentation of sounds

6. Rhyming sounds

7. Word awareness

Phonemic Awareness Resources
Resource	Description and strategy it addresses	Ideas for use in the classroom
	The Learning to Read section is excellent for Strategies 1, 4 and 7.
	Extensive site includes information on all strategies with specific links for each strategy.
Suggested Activities	Rhyming, alliteration, sound patterns, tongue twisters and a list of books suitable for developing PA. Strategies 4, 6
	This site has interactive games for students to find the sounds and letters. It also has printables.
Phonemic Awareness Activities	Rhyming, syllable and phonemic segmentation, beginning sound substitution, sound isolation
Computer Activities for K-5	This site has is designed for use by teachers in computer labs, but the links lead to activities that are readily adapted for classroom or individual use.
	This MarcoPolo website developed by the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and in partnership with the Verizon Foundation, helps with rhyming (Strategy 6).Generating Rhymes: Developing Phonemic Awareness
	This Scholastic site has many activities for beginning readers: naming, letters and rhyming. Building Language for Literacy
	A great site for teachers from the University of Oregon Teaching Phonemic Awareness
Online audio practice and printable consonant and vowel worksheets	This site from TampaReads offers some great resources for vowel and consonant awareness.

| Nan Sisemore | Last Modified 23 June, 2008 |