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.
Teaching the Alphabet- 5 Things You Need to Know!
When I began teaching many years ago, I realized I was feeling unprepared to teach reading. I decided to pursue my master’s degree in reading for this very reason. I had some pretty amazing professors who were ahead of their time. They were already teaching the science of reading, in my opinion. Especially when we […]
Preschool Activities to Teach Important Skills to Get Ready for Kindergarten
There are so many important skills for preschoolers to have to make the transition to Kindergarten smoother. Whether a child goes to daycare, preschool, or stays at home, there are many easy preschool activities that teach important skills to get ready for Kindergarten.
5 Tips For A Successful Back to School Night With Elementary Parents
This year was my 34th Back to School Night as a teacher! I tried many things over the years to make Back To School Night or Meet The Teacher Night successful. I want to share with you my five favorite Back To School Night activities and ideas that worked well in all different elementary school grades
What Is Visual Discrimination and Why Is It Important in PreK and Kindergarten?
My defining moment as an educator was in one of my first graduate courses. My professor gave us a decodable book she had created with symbols. As we started reading, we had to continue to look back to the first page to remember what letter of the alphabet was represented by which symbol. MY HEAD HURT and my stomach churned a little! This is what it must have been like for my then second graders who were trying to learn how to read! WOW !
Teaching Sight Words- Using Multisensory Sight Word Activities
I absolutely love the Orton Gillingham approach to sight words, my kindergartners do too ! If you are familiar with the program, you know that it includes crossing hemispheres with arm tapping, finger sliding, finger tracing and writing. This approach to “red words”, those that you have to STOP and think about , uses a multi sensory approach to learn these words that cannot always be decoded easily. In the rest of this post, I will give you some effective and fun ways to get the kids moving and memorizing those sight words.
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.
Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills – 7 Ways to Teach Sound and Word Discrimination
I always believed that teaching phonological awareness skills was important, but I do not think I understood how important teaching the individual skills explicitly was to the growth and development of the new reader. …….. In this post, I will give you seven hands on ways to teach sound and word discrimination.
Why Is Teaching Phonological Awareness So Important? Skill #2 – Alliteration
. These skills are so important for all children but especially important for children with dyslexia. Maryanne gives the example of climbing a ladder, you want to start on the bottom rung and climb higher, not skip the lower rungs and try to reach the higher rungs first.