MODULE 6

Hope Sharps

Alphabet Awareness

Introduce at least two letters at a time

Give students MANY opportunities to

compare and contrast the different letters

Introduce the alphabet by using student

names

Create signs for the classroom

Alphabet Awareness

Bring in boxes that include letters of the

alphabet

Allow students to use keyboards

Display a model alphabet

Read alphabet books

Phonemic Awareness

Important for students to be able to

detect speech sounds in words

Important Skills include: rhyming,

blending, segmenting, and manipulating

Rhyming: read nursery rhymes or other

rhyming books and play games that
include rhyming words

Phonemic Awareness

Segmenting - larger elements to smaller

elements

Blending merging sounds into words

Manipulating changing sounds to make

new words

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness

Conditions of Phonics
Instruction

Must teach skills necessary for decoding

words

Must cover skills students do not already

know

Must include skills that are related to

tasks that students are currently being
asked to complete or soon will be asked
to complete

Phonics Instruction

Phonics Instruction

Phonics and Dialects

High-Frequency Words

High-frequency words should be

introduced as part of phonics instruction

Read predictable books, caption books,

and label books

Word walls and word banks

High-Frequency Words

High-Frequency Words

References

Florida Center for Reading Research.

www.fcrr.org.
Gunning, Thomas. (2016). Creating
Literacy Instruction for All Students.
Boston, MA:
Pearson.
Read 180. Houghton Mifflin.
System 44. Houghton Mifflin.
SRA. McGraw Hill Education.