Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

PhonicsPhonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them.

QuizOn a sheet of paper, write down the correct answer to each question.

1. Which word contains the same first sound as owl?A. own B. ouch C. older

D. oven

2. If you add the /th/ sound (as in then), to the beginning of ease, what word do you hear?

3. If you blend /w/ as in water, /ŏ/ as in often, /ch/ as in beach, and /t/ as in time, what word do you hear?

4. If you delete the /k/ sound from work, what word do you hear?

5. If you separate nation into its individual sounds, what sounds do you hear?

6. If you blend /b/ as in boy, /l/ as in lion, /oy/ as in toy, /s/ as in sit, and /t/ as in tea, what nonsense word do you hear?

Objectives

Understand why phonological and

phonemic awareness is important.

Understand the general principles

for teaching phonological and

phonemic awareness.

Plan and execute a phonological and phonemic

awareness lesson plan.

Reading Foundations

Comprehensio

n

Phonological

Awareness

Phonics/Decoding

Layers of Phonological Awareness

Phonological Awareness at Different Grade Levels

2nd – 5th

• Focus on

phonological

awareness

• Game-like activities,

songs, poems, tactile

activities

Pre-K – 1st

• Focus on phonemic

awareness

• Fast, focused lessons

emphasizing oral

segmenting and

blending

Identifying orally spokenwords beginning with the same sound bat & bed

Deleting a phoneme and saying the word thatremains tent without the final /t/ is ten

Blending onset-rime units into real words /h/ + /at/

Segmenting words into phonemes tin is /t/ + /i/ + /n/

Blending phonemes into real words (/s/ + /i/ + /t/)

Blending phonemes into nonsense words /s/ + /t/ + /a/ +/p/

Key Phonemic Awareness Activities

OBJECTIVE

ALIGNMENT

THREE F’s

WORD LIST

TASK

Creating a Phonological and Phonemic Lesson Plan What are the essential pieces of a PPA lesson?

States the PPA objective the lesson addresses.

Matches the word study lesson being taught in the same block.

Describes the lesson task the teacher will execute; should align with objective.

Should be fast, fun, and focused.

A word list is included (as needed for tasks).

Turn and TalkImagine that tonight on the phone with a friend

who’s not a teacher, you’re explaining

today’s session. They say, “You had a whole session on

manipulating sounds? Isn’t reading about

printed words?! What was the point of that?!”

How do you respond?

Thank you!

In the subject line, use the following naming convention:FirstName_LastName_CMAName_WordStudy

Email it to me at iris.t.nguyen@gmail.com

Use this time to complete your word study/PPA lesson plans for the week.