All of the following resources have activities that can be used to develop phonemic awareness. They can be used with children of a variety of different ages and can either be done online or printed off and used in a classroom. The sites are not geared towards independent students, but are useful for teachers, tutors, and parents trying to help children succeed.
Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Worksheets: http://www.tampareads.com/phonics/phonicsindex.htm
This website is literally a “gold mine of phonics and phonemic awareness worksheets.” There are 56 worksheets to choose from in three different sections: kindergarten through early first grade, first grade, and ages six through 100 years. The worksheets focus on “memorization of important consonant and vowel sounds.”
The first section is for kindergarten through early first grade and specifically addresses consonant sounds and basic phonemic awareness skills. These worksheets include things such as the “Chocolate Chicken” coloring sheet (focusing on the “ch” sound). There are activities and cutouts about the “Chocolate Chicken” as well. This section also includes “Sharing Sherry” for the “sh” sound, “Thunder Thumb” for the “th” sound and “White Whale” for the “wh” sound. Furthermore, there are worksheets for the different sounds of the letters in the alphabet. For example, the letter “b,” which has a “buh” sound can either occur at the beginning of a word such as “ball,” or at the end of a word, such as “web.” The worksheets on this site include several examples and pictures of the different sounds and their placements in words.
The second section is for first grade students. These worksheets focus on phonics and phonemic awareness and are divided up into six lessons. Lesson one has worksheets involving the Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) words, lesson two has worksheets for blends; lesson three addresses the Final E Rule; lesson four deals with digraphs (ch-sh-th-wh); lesson five introduces two letter vowel sounds (ai-ee-ie-oa-oi); and lesson six works with r-controlled vowels. All of the worksheets have colored pictures for the children as well. This section of the site also includes ideas for teachers on how to use the worksheets.
The only down side of this website is that if you would like access to the rest of their materials, you have to purchase them. The materials you can purchase include a vowel sound teacher as well as an adult phonics teacher that uses audio technology to help students learn. This material is useful for ages 6 through 100 years.
Overall, I think this is a good website because it has a lot of activities that can be used to develop phonemic awareness. I am planning on using some of these worksheets to help my tutees. These worksheets are also excellent for multicultural classrooms, especially since all of the worksheets have accompanying pictures. This helps the children to understand the words regardless of their English abilities. However, one of the problems with these types of worksheets is they focus on seeing the learner as a plant and encourage memorization of concepts. I think these worksheets are definitely a good place to start but should be supplemental to other types of phonemic awareness activities.
(Evaluated by Clare Cryar)
Phonemic Awareness: http://www.highlands.k12.fl.us/~lce/non_homeroom/phonemic%20awareness.htm
Phonemic Awareness is an important skill to teach in the lives of young children according to recent studies. This website titled simply Phonemic Awareness is a great tool for teachers and students at the Pre K-1st grade level. The focus of this site is to provide an explanation of what Phonemic Awareness is and what you can do with it in and out of the classroom. This website provides sections that take you to other websites that have things such as activities, games, informational articles and more.
This website is very basic and easy to use. The top of the page provides a definition of the word, why it’s important, samples and even statistics about the importance of teaching Phonemic Awareness. At the middle to bottom of the page there is an activities database, as I am calling it, that offers links of other websites and some of these categories include: strategies to use when teaching, games, songs to teach and worksheets. Though hesitant at first to choose this website, I find that it’s great because it provides many resources and different topics all in one site. Also this site has basic information on Phonemic Awareness that gives you knowledge you’ll need before you can teach these activities. I think parents will love this site because they can find games and activities for their child to do at home or they can be used in the classroom by teachers and students will love being able to use the technology at such a young age. In addition this website can be used by ESL teachers and it can show those steps in how to begin to teach their students English.
There are cons to this website, some of the links provided are broken or cannot be found and some words look like they are links but they are simply emphasized. The broken sites are Reading Workshop-Phonemic Awareness , Jim's Crankophone , Phonemic Awareness What Does It Mean? and http://reading.uoregon.edu/pa/index.php . Now you might be asking why even include this website if it has a lot of broken links and the reason I think this it’s so great is because though some are broken there are many more that work and all of those are included on one web page. To fix the problem of the broken links I have shared with you the ones that don’t work so you don’t waste your time when exploring this website and listed below are the working links.
Jim Crankophone website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/innovation/public/wordsandpictures/cvc/crank/index.shtml
Phonemic Awareness what does it mean?: http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/phonemic_awareness.htm
Beginning Reading Web Page: http://reading.uoregon.edu/pa/index.php
An article by Yopp & Yopp provides information from Every Child Reading: An Action Plan of the Learning First Alliance (1998) that “identifies phonemic awareness as one of the most important foundations of reading success and recommends that its development be addressed in prekindergarten and kindergarten.” After reading the article I realized how important this really is. Children need a place to start when learning a language, aside from the knowledge they gain from the outside world, and Phonemic Awareness can be that place. It will help kids see and hear parts of a word so when all information is gathered they will be able to reach the conclusion of spelling it. This site can help build that foundation in many different ways which will only be beneficial for the learner.
Some activities you can have your student do are the worksheets, games, or songs. After teaching a lesson on Phonemic Awareness you can take your students to the computer lap and have them play the Clifford Game. This way you can monitor their progress all at the same time and see how much they learned from the lesson. Also you can sing the songs in class which is always fun for the kids. In addition to that I may have my student’s do games at home with their parents such as the Jim’s Crankophone Game. Parents will be able to see what you as a teacher are teaching their children and participate. If they want to further their knowledge on this subject they can also visit this website and begin working on it with their child at home.
This website database really provides a useful source in the lives of teachers, students, and parents. Its easy accessibility and great amount of information will really help educators take a successful step in the direction of mastering how to teach this subject. I hope you enjoy this website as much as I have.
(Evaluated by Marissa Rosenstein)
Phonemic Awareness Activities: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/e_literacy/awareness.html
This Phonemic Awareness Activities website gives examples of activities that can be used for children to gain phonemic awareness, based on research and what studies have found useful for them to learn. It is very straight forward, easy to navigate, and clear for its audience. It says that rhyming and alliteration are the easiest forms of phonemic awareness for children. This website clearly lists the objectives of the activity, the materials that are needed, and the procedures that should be used to help the children learn, as well as a list of good books that can be purchased or found at the library to help the children with their phonemic awareness. This website is great because it gives lists from formal to informal activities that can be used in big groups or for one on one interaction and also gives different age range activities from pre-k to third grade. Another strength of this website is that it gives reasons for why each of the activities are helpful and useful in phonemic awareness. This could be very helpful in the classroom for any teachers between those grades because it gives them so many activities that they can try to help the children learn. If one activity is not working for a specific student the teacher can try another activity. They are all fun for the students while also helping them improve their phonemic awareness. All of the materials that are suggested are very cheap and can be made up. Also, the teacher could suggest this for the parents because it also gives activities that they could work on with the kids at home. One thing that could be improved about the website is that it only gives activities that are based on rhyming and alliteration instead of a using other activities that could be helpful. Overall, this is a website that I will keep in mind for when I have children or students.
(Evaluated by Micah Morgan)
English Phonemes, Spellings, Example Words, and Meaningful Names: http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/spellings.html
On this site you will find a chart of the alphabet and how each letter sounds in different situations. For example, the differences in the “a” sound in words like train and flat. The chart gives the student the correct sound of each letter and how to use them when reading and sounding out words. The chart also provides examples of how the sounds can differ in different words. This chart would be very ideal for English Language Learners because they would be able to look at the chart as they read to help them understand how to use the different sounds for the same letters. Teachers can easily print out this chart and give it out to each student to place in their homework folder so they can have it everyday when they go home. They also can blow it up and place it on the walls of the classroom for the children to have. Depending on the grade level this can be great for children all who are just starting to learn how to read. This chart would be very useful for teachers who are teaching English Language Learners and also any teacher who is teaching children how to read. Sounding out has been a problem for most children it could be a challenge at any level of reading so having this chart as a good reminder would be great.
(Evaluated by Candyce Pace)
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