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.
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.
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.
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.
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