CHAPTER 5: PHONEMIC AWARENESS

Objectives

As a result of reading and studying this chapter students will be able to:

• Recognize the strong influence of phonemic awareness on a child's later reading and spelling achievement
• Explain the differences among phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics
• Identify individual phonemes in words
• Sequence the levels of phonological awareness development
• Identify the National Reading Panel's recommendations for phonemic awareness instruction
• Explain when and how to assess phonemic awareness for beginning readers and struggling older readers
• Describe intervention strategies for students who have difficulty with phonemic awareness skills
• Apply lessons for effective instruction of phonological awareness skills and phonemic awareness skills
• Identify effective ELL modifications for phonemic awareness lessons

Key Terms

• Phonological awareness
• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics
• Onset-rime
• Stop sounds
• Continuous sounds
• Phoneme isolation
• Phoneme identity
• Phoneme categorization
• Phoneme blending
• Phoneme segmentation
• Phoneme deletion
• Phoneme addition
• Phoneme substitution
• Elkonin Sound Boxes

Assessment

Instructional PowerPoint