How To Teach Phonemic Awareness 9 Simple Definitions and Examples

Phonemic awareness comes under the umbrella of phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate the individual sounds in a word. It is very important for students to have this skills in order to do well later with phonics and higher level reading skills. Phonemic awareness teaches us to listen for and hear the individual sounds or phonemes in a word. PA helps students with spelling and writing later on.

Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills – Why Is Teaching Syllables Important and 7 Ways to Practice With Your Students

When readers understand how to break up a word in syllables, it makes it easier to read unknown words. When readers can read or “sound out” chunks , those chunks are easier to remember in our short term memory rather than remembering all the single phonemes in a word. Dividing words into chunks and blending the chunks together, speeds up the process of decoding which creates more fluent readers.

Is “The Science of Reading” Something New?

The best training, I ever had as a reading teacher, was my Orton Gillingham training. After I completed my master’s degree and became a reading specialist, I still felt like something was missing. I was teaching and tutoring and working with so many students who were still struggling with their reading. I fell in love with the approach because Orton Gillingham was already using direct, explicit phonics instruction.

What Are The Benefits of Word Sorts ?

When I taught second grade, word sorts were my favorite way of giving my students a hands on, multi-sensory way to practice letter recognition, spelling patterns and word families. Now, I am teaching Kindergarten and I am using them again. In moving schools, I lost my “big book of word sorts” , so now I […]