Understanding The Difference Between Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
When it comes to teaching students how to read, two terms often come up in discussions: phonological awareness and phonemic awareness. While they may sound similar, they actually refer to different but closely related concepts in the world of literacy development.
Unlocking Literacy: A Simple Guide to the Simple View of Reading Theory
As a professor, my favorite courses to teach are in the area of literacy,reading and writing development. I share the Simple View of Reading with my students to show the importance of both teaching decoding and language comprehension development. As literacy champions, you play a crucial role in shaping young minds and fostering a love for reading. This post will dive into a theory that can guide your approach to teaching reading effectively – the Simple View of Reading.
Mastering Phonemic Awareness: The Key to Reading Success
Are you looking for the key to unlock reading success for your child? Look no further than mastering phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds (or phonemes) in spoken words. It is a crucial skill for early readers as it forms the foundation for decoding and spelling words.
Using Sentence Scrambles to Teach Sentence Structure and Writing!
Sentence scrambles or scrambled sentences are a fun and engaging activity for young students. There are many benefits to using them to teach both sentence structure and sentence writing. Sentence scrambles are a low-prep activity
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.
Fun and Easy Ways to Teach Important Skills During the Clothes Study for Preschool
As a new preschool teacher, I wanted to find fun and easy ways to teach important math, literacy and fine motor skills as we were going through the Clothes Study for Preschool. I found that my students needed help specifically with sorting, vocabulary, pre-writing and fine motor skills and pattern awareness.
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 […]