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Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

What is Phonemic Awareness?

*Knowing that words are comprised of a sequence of spoken sounds

What is Phonics?

*The relationship between written letters and their sounds

What strategies can we use to teach Phonemic Awareness and Phonics?

*Phonological Awareness (Hearing individual sounds in words)

*Phonemic Isolation (Identifying and manipulating sounds)

*Phonemic Identity (Recognizing same sounds in a different word)

*Phonemic Categorization (Recognizing words that don’t belong)

*Segmenting (Breaking a word into its separate sounds)

*Rhyming

*Blending (Putting together separate sounds)

Rhyming Word Songs

This rhyme helps children act out rhyming in a fun way.

Stand up in your group area.   Do the body rhyme.

The children will want to do this over and over.

Body Rhyme

Say go now touch your toe

Say neat now touch your feet

Say real now touch your heel

Say laugh now touch your calf

Say bee now touch your knee

Say high now touch your thigh

Say paste now touch your waist

Say yummy now touch your tummy

Say best now touch your chest

Say colder now touch your shoulder

Say twist now touch your wrist

Say sand now touch your hand

Say crumb now touch your thumb

Say check now touch your neck

Say pin now touch your chin

Say bear now touch your hair

When doing this rhyme with the children make sure you give them a chance to say the body part that rhymes before you finish the sentence. 

Do You Know Two Rhyming Words

Do you know two rhyming words

Two rhyming words

Two rhyming words

Cat, Hat are rhyming words

Rhyming words

They sound a lot a like.

Mat, Pat

Pig, Wig

Frog, Hog

Have the children come up with their own rhyming words and sing the Rhyming word song.

Hickory Dickory Dock

 

Hickory Dickory dock

The mouse ran up the clock

 

Hickory Dickory door

The mouse ran across the floor

 

Hickory Dickory air

The mouse ran under the chair

 

Hickory Dickory pouch

The mouse ran over the couch

 

Hickory Dickory fable

The mouse ran under the table

 

Hickory Dickory presser

The mouse ran over the dresser

 

Hickory Dickory poor

The mouse ran up the door

 

Hickory Dickory basset

The mouse ran in the closet

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