Supporting Phonemic Awareness in the

ClassroomFinal Project Template

Final Project DirectionsAs a final project, you will develop plans for teaching phonemic awareness in your classroom, including plans for assessment procedures, analysis, and activities. This final project template will also include one example of a phonemic awareness assessment and analysis on a student.

Your plans should incorporate at least one of the technology tools explored in this course and include details for other types of phonemic awareness strengthening activities.

Complete this template as the course progresses. This template is due to your facilitator at the end of Session Six. At that time, your facilitator will review your final project and provide feedback for you in the Notes section.

Part I: General Information (Session One)

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Is Phonemic Awareness currently being addressed in your classroom? If so, how? If you are not currently teaching in a classroom, please fill out this template as if you are teaching in the classroom of your choice.

Part II: Phonemic Awareness(Session One)

Reflect on one of the readings from this session. Some guiding questions could be: Why is phonemic awareness an important step in learning to read? Do you currently assess student’s phonemic awareness? If not, what are the early indicators that allow you to identify if a student is at risk of reading difficulty?

Part III: Linguistic Components(Session Two)

From the Yopp article, which activities look promising and intriguing? Which ones might be easiest to incorporate into your current curriculum? Which activities, before assessing your students, do you think would benefit your classroom most?

Part IV: Audio Recording Practice(Session Two)

Share your URL to your practice audio recording here:

Reflect on this practice. How do you imagine audio recordings will help you teach and your students learn about phonemic awareness?

Part V: Student Assessment(Session Three)

Which assessment will you be using on your student?

Insert the URL of your audio-recorded assessment with a student here.

Part VI: Analysis(Session Three)

After completing an assessment on a student or small child, you will reflect on their scores using the appropriate worksheet.

What stands out to you most?

Reflect on the areas of student strength.

Reflect on the areas of student weakness.

Part VII: Strategies(Session Four)

Include strategies you will use in your classroom here. Products and Performances Questions relevant to your lesson Instructional Strategies Specific Skills to be developed

Part VII: Strategies, cont.(Session Four)

Include strategies you will use in your classroom here. Activities and procedures Extensions and modifications Materials and resources needed Websites used References (copyright needed?)

Part VIII: Common Core Standards(Session Four)

Please list all relevant Common Core Standards here, as well as any relevant Massachusetts Proposed Additional Standards.

Part IX: Technology(Session Five)

Include technology strategies you will use in your classroom here, noting also your access to computers and other required hardware. You may also consider using your newfound podcasting skills in a creative way to help students with phonemic awareness.

Part X: Reflection(Session Six)

Include technology strategies you will use in your classroom here, noting also your access to computers and other required hardware. You may also consider using your newfound podcasting skills in a creative way to help students with phonemic awareness.

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