HOW CAN WE PHONEMIC

WHAT IS
TEACH
PHONEMIC AWARENESS
PHONEMIC
AWARENESS? AND
AWARENESS?
PHONICS
There are many "Phonemic awareness is
strategies to help kids the ability to identify
BUILDING THE
develop phonemic and manipulate FOUNDATION FOR
awareness, including individual sounds ENGAGED READING
some that we use (phonemes) in spoken
without realizing it words" (Reading Rockets
Stretching words into n.d.). Before students
individual sounds can begin associating
(Reading Rockets 2019)
phonemes with letters,
Asking students to
identify ending sounds they must recognize
(Reading Rockets n.d.) that words are
Explicitly teaching vowel composed of individual
sounds and having sounds, and that
students identify them
differences in these
(Reading Rockets n.d.)
Asking students to sounds can change the
change one sound in a meanings of words.
word
Using music and rhyme (Netclipart n.d.)
FROM TEACHING RESOURCES AND
READINGS
PHONEMIC PHONICS:
AWARENESS BEST
DECODABLE TEXT SOURCES
TO PHONICS PRACTICES (THE READING LEAGUE
2019)
Phonics instruction
Phonics instruction is
involves teaching All of these text sources are structured in a way

most effective when that systematically incorporates more complex

students that the sounds
it is systematic and phonetic structures. Choosing an appropriate

of spoken language text set gives your students access to practice

explicit (National opportunities within their ZPD.

correspond to the letters
Reading Panel 2000).
of written language
While there have
(Reading Rockets n.d.). GAMES, APPS, AND
historically been
debates on the WEBSITES (COMMONSENSE
Synthetic phonics builds MEDIA N.D.)
subject, we now know
systematically from
kindergarten is an These tools provide structured practice and
phomemic awareness to
appropriate time to
reinforcement for phonics lessons. All of the tools

letter combinations to reviewed are suitable for primary students.

begin phonics (Ibid.)

entire words, and there
Phonics should be
is some evidence that
one part of a READING 101 (READING
this approach is even
balanced reading ROCKETS N.D.)
more effective than
curriculum, and it
analytical phonics This self-paced, free, online course provides
should not crowd out
instriction (Johnson and educators with a refresher on best practices in

read-alouds or primary-level reading and writing instruction. It is

Watson 2005).
comprehension
particularly recommended for teachers who have

recently switched to primary or teachers working

strategies (Ibid.) with students who have reading diabilities.