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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)

Language and Literacy Activities

Phonological Awareness

Alphabet Fishing

Children take turns fishing for letters.  Children identify the letter that they caught, and then find the object that begins with that letter sound.

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Identifying Initial Sounds

Find pictures from alphabet sounds photo library that go with your curriculum theme.  Place letters in a pocket chart that would identify the first sound of each photo.  Have children identify picture in photo.  Then have child identify the first sound of that word and place photo card under letter that makes that sound.

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Sound Cups

Children sort objects by sound into letter cups.  Child picks up an object from the object tray and identifies the object and the beginning sound. Child then places that object into the right letter cup.   

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Lilly Letter Lady
Lilly letter lady introduce new letters of interest.  She sings the Found a Letter song with the children and introduces new letter sounds using items that begin with that sound.  Children help Lilly Letter Lady identify all the objects.

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Found a Letter
(tune: Found a Peanut)
Found a letter, Found a letter,
Found a letter "A" Today.

Oh, Today I found a letter,

Found a letter "A" Today.
(Use any letter in place of "A".)

~ Author Unknown

Letter Sound Introduction
Introduce letters to the children.  Example letter (T).  Use words with alliteration with the letter T so the children can hear the sound.  Tiny turtle trotted to the tent.  Have the children think of words that start with the letter T , write the words that they come up with.  Find picture cards that have pictures of T words

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