This is an article I found titled "Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines" that goes into great detail on what phonological awareness means and discusses various historic and contemporary research findings on the topic. It explores questions such as "What is phonological awareness, and why it is important to beginning reading success?", "What are documented effective principles that should guide phonological awareness instruction?" and other questions that may have been raised by this subject. It also presents some example games and activities that help students begin to understand phonological awareness, such as 'Nonword Spelling', 'Digit Name Rate', and 'Yopp-SingerTest of Phoneme Segmentation'. There are also activities been proven to be effective in teaching
students. This website is surely helpful both to people new to phonological awareness and teachers needing guidelines, and it is definitely something worth taking a look at.
Evaluated by Samuel Martinez
This website is a part of the Irvine Unified School District, based out of California, Family Literacy Project. It's a source for parents to learn what phonemic awareness is and have a few different activities that they can engage in with their children. It's a great source for activities that will help parents reinforce the different things their children are learning in school. It gives a brief description to parents as to what phonemic awareness is and outlines the school districts' goals for development of their Kindergarten and First Grade literacy abilities. Things like nursery rhymes, rhyming games, letter play, clapping and tapping to songs/stories, separating words into sounds, blending letters, word play, and decoding big words into smaller ones. Then they list several activities for parents to help their students develop phonemic awareness, outside of school.
I feel like this website is a good model for all elementary schools. If we provide our parents with information as to what our curriculum provides for their children and parent-child activities to further develop what's learning in school, we're creating more parent involvement in education. We're allowing parents to be more active in their children's learning. Many parents may be clueless as to what activities to do with their children and this will provide them with many sources. It's all easily accessible by parents to use.
1) Listening Awareness
- Have child close eyes and listen for three sounds you make.
- Ex: Parent claps hands, snaps fingers, and stomps feet.
- Child opens eyes.
- Parent says, "First you heard ______.
- In the middle you heard_____. And last you heard ______."
- Child fills in blank.
- Use the following: animal sounds, color words, familiar items, letters, sounds of alphabet
I found this activity a little confusing. I didn't know exactly what sounds to make and what the clapping, snapping, or stomping had to do with the activity...a little elaboration here would be nice. It's a confusing activity that a lot of parents could get lost with.
2) Rhyming Awareness
- Read and teach your child Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
- Substitute rhyming words
Ex. Hickory, dickory, dock
The mouse ran up the clock
Child replaces clock to a rhyming word such as “sock”
- Continue with other books as well
This is a really fun and easy activity for parents to do with their children. There are many books out there that rhyme. Especially Dr. Seuss books and several nursery rhymes. It can make for a fun activity right before bed.
3) Word and Syllable Awareness
A) Play ‘Word Clap’. Parent says "Sailboat."
- Child says (while clapping), "Sail…boat" (claps two times for the two parts)
- Sample Words:
- Playground, sandbox, crayons, chair, friend, classroom, paint, paper, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, computer
- If your child has mastered 2 syllable (part) words, try 3 syllables.
This is a very simple and easy to play game. You can do it almost anywhere. Think about how much time your child spends in the car with you. How many words can you go through on just the drive home?
B) Play ‘What’s the Word’ Game
- This time parent says a word in parts and the child repeats the entire word.
- Example:
Parent: "di..no..saur"
Child: "dinosaur"
Parent: "al..pha...bet"
Child: "alphabet"
Parent: "tel…e…vi…sion"
Child: "television"
Again, you can make this more difficult with words with more syllables when your child is ready.
Really simple game as well. You can play this anytime and use it with a variety of word. At the dinner table, you can relate it to things under the category of “dinner.” You can make it into themes. Take them outside and use objects around them. Only bad thing is that it's hard to play this game with one syllable words – you have to find many two, three, four, etc syllables.
3) Word Family Awareness
- Choose a word family to practice.
- Parent says, "C….at. What’s the word?"
- Child says, "Cat."
- Continue with the same word family to reinforce rhyming, vowel patterns and sound blending.
- “Sat, pat, bat, fat...”
Also a simple game to play with students. They can really build on rhyming and learning the different letters of the alphabet. Allows students to work on consonants, vowels, vowel sounds, and more. Students can really develop their rhyming abilities.
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