Phonemic Awareness = Phonics

Phonemic Awareness

The understanding that spoken words are made up of a series of discrete sounds

Is different from Phonics: Phonics

• Deals with the learning of sound-spelling relationships and is associated with printed words.

Phonemic Awareness

Oral Activities Playful in nature Engaging way of discriminating the sounds Understanding that words are composed of

small units (phonemes)

Phonemic Awareness Goal

To break down and manipulate spoken words

Phonological Awareness Continuum Rhyming/Alliteration Sentence Segmenting

Texas Teaching Continuum Compound Word Segmenting Syllable Blending and Segmenting Onset-Rime Blending and Segmenting Blending and Segmenting Individual Phonemes

Rhyme Rhyming with children is one of the

strongest methods for building phonemic awareness. Poetry helps a lot:

Compound Word Segmenting

Segmenting and blending compounds to build understanding that words can be made up of two different words.

Using your two fists:

Hold them together and say “thumbtack”. Separate them as you say, “thumb” “tack”. Then put them back together “thumbtack”

Syllable Blending and Segmenting Blending syllables to form words

Segmenting words into syllables

Counting syllables (I.e., clapping and tapping)

Onsets and Rimes

Onset: The first consonant sound of a syllableRime: The rest from the vowel back

Blending:• /b/ +/at/ = bat

• Segmenting• bat = /b/ + /at/

Manipulating Individual Phonemes

bat: /b/ae/t/

see: /s/i/

Alphabetic Principle

Letters are normally matched with sounds that correlate to speech.

Phonics Instruction

Follows the same sequence as Phonemic Awareness

What is Book Knowledge?

General knowledge of print and book concepts

Print Concepts

Print is read from left to right What letters, words, and sentences are There are spaces between words Functions of capital letters and punctuation Oral language can be written and then read

Environmental Print

Represents one of the first types of print children learn to recognize

Introduces children to the relationship between print and reading.

Book Concepts

Knowledge that a book is for reading Function and location of the front, back, top,

and bottom of a book How to turn pages properly Where to begin reading Functions of print and pictures and their

relationship to each other Knowledge of the author, and illustrator