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Posted by: stephanie a. #60259

In Patricia Cunninghams Month by Month Phonics for first grade, she provides activities for the first month of school to develop the students' phonemic awareness. I had my doubts before seeing it in action. Through contextual, meaningful phonemic awareness activites (name games and such) all students knew most of their sounds by the next month of school, and were then ready for the word wall/word study work. Also, I spent a lot of time with Big Books, interactive writing, poems, and chants...these are all effective ways to develop phonemic awareness. We would also chant each day "Capital A, lower case a, AAA (the short sound), capital B, lower case b, /b//b//b/!, etc." as I'd point to each letter.

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Posted by: Garden Gal #138725

Explode the Code is great for older children who need some reading support-first grade and up. IMO it is too academic for a preschool age child. Pushing reading too early does not have long term benefits and can actually hinder a child's reading progress. Get the Adams book on phonemic awareness activities, teach your granddaugher Nursery Rhymes and other rhymes, sing lots of songs with her, read to her, read to her, read to her...when she shows an interest talk about letter names and sounds. Halle Yopp has a great book Ready for Reading: A Parent Handbook that is available through Amazon-that will give you lots of age appropriate ideas that will help your granddaughter become a life-long reader and learner.

If the chid is not going to preschool have you thought about ways you and ...
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Posted by: sharon #25179

Dana,
I am a firm believer of teaching phonics and phonemic awareness from the early stages of reading readiness. It is essential that children understand phonetics to be good readers. I, too, am a kindergarten teacher. I find it very easy to integrate letter/sound awareness across the curriculum...take any letter, find a story or choose a theme/season that fits that letter, and choose an activity that begins with that sound for art, math, language arts, food, social studies, science, and large motor/body management. I do this with all the letter sounds, going through the alphabet in order. Use all possible sensory experiences for each activity. Hope this helps. If you have questions, you can email me. sharon

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Posted by: Sue W. #80959

One thing we have been using more extensively the last year in our Title I remedial reading for 1st through 3rd graders is starting out with a phonemic awareness inventory. It's hard to teach phonics and not as effective when kids aren't able to recognize rhyming words and add another, when they can't match initial or final sounds or substitute or blend sounds. For so long we have assumed kids have those prereading skills but it has made a great deal of difference to concentrate on those skills to give them a boost. There are good sources of information on these skills.
Creative Teaching Press has songs and rhymes on CDs. I have a couple of great books at school, but can't get in to check on authors, or publishers because of remodeling going on.

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Posted by: karen #25180

Dana,

I teach K as well. I find that you can integrate phonemic awareness anywhere. What I have my class do daily is write in a journal. Before they write, I model. I show them how I sound out words, use punctuation, capitals, etc. Then, in their own time, they start to pick up my cues and incorporate it into their own journals. Some kids go from using scribbles as their words at the beginning of the year, to printing the beginning consonants in the words by the end of the year.

Hope this helps

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Posted by: tigmil #122994

All of the research I have seen says that phonemic awareness instruction should occur in Kindergarten and mastered by 2nd grade. I think it would be hard to have activities for the upper grades. If a child cannot hear and manipulate the sounds in words by the 4th grade, he/she has a serious reading problem.

With that said, you could look at this website for ideas for teaching all five components for early literacy
http://reading.uoregon.edu/

Good luck!
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great ideas for teaching phonemic awareness
Posted by: Nancy #64991

I have had the same challenges before. A great website to look into is The Reading Genie out of Auburn University. If you do search on Yahoo, on "The Reading Genie" you will find it. It offers GREAT ideas for teaching phonemic awareness. I also found that SRA Reading Mastery series works wonders with those students. It is very repetitive and also works well with ESL children. Your CST may be able to get it for you.

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Posted by: JB #33735

Yes, there is a phonological awareness test I give but I'll have to find the publisher. I got the info at a good PA workshop. We have also just purchased a new computer program called Earobics...supposed to address this very thing. They have website earobics.com
We also use Scholastic Phonics alive...nice program, good graphics and data collection.

As far as reading groups read up on Guided Reading by Fountas and Pinnell and enlist some volunteer help to run the other literacy centers...keep it simple!

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Posted by: pjm #80689

HI
I show my kids random letters and see if they can tell me the sound the letter makes. If your letter makes more than one sound like in vowels I ask them can this letter make more than one sound? I then do the reverse. I say the sound and have them write the letter that makes that sound. I also do digraphs and blends. You'll learn a lot doing this.

I also do a short spelling test. I have the words I use at school and for the life of me can't think of them off the top of my head but it starts simple and gets more complex so that you can see who needs some challenging and who needs the basics. I know it has I, am, hat and friend on it...but I can't remember the others....sorry but if you have a spelling program in your 1st grade you could pick 20 words from throughout the book ...
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Posted by: Anon #96783

True, but is sounding out a word the only way to teach a child to read or to assess a child's ability to learn to read? There is more to "reading" than sounding words out and word calling - it's called comprehension. I didn't learn phonics in school - I learned through sight words teaching, memorizing letter combinations, context clues, word shapes, and picture clues. I eventually taught myself using a dictionary how to sound out words that I didn't know (memorized). I graduated from college with a 3.875 grade point average.

I question the research - it says there is a "correlation" between phonemic awareness and a child's success of reading. I believe there is a "correlation" but this research seems to be very much understood by people who use it. They truely believe if a child ...
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