October 2020 Miss.

Hines’ 1st grade Class

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Help Your Child

Enhance Their This week, we are learning about Phonemic
Skills at Home Awareness.
with These Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize, reflect
Strategies! on, or use phonemes (sounds) in words. It is the
capability of understanding the individual sounds in
-Read rhyming
books to and with
verbal language work together to form words.
your child. - Examples: the word “cat” is made up of three
Rhyming books help phonemes: /c/ /a/ /t/.
kids recognize the If you took away the “c” in cat, it would sound like “at”
sounds in words. Dr. made up of phonemes /a/ & /t/.
Seuss books are
always a fun choice! The first sound in the word “mop” sounds like “mmm”.

-Play “I SPY” with

your child
anywhere! – Ask
your child to find
items around them
that start with a
Online Phonemic Awareness
certain sound. For activities!!:
example, say: “I spy https://pbskids.org/sesame/games/gro
something that vers-rhyme-time
begins with the /a/
sound.”, then the http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phon
child will name off emics/pumpkin_patch/pumpkin_patch.
items in the room html
that start with the
sound. http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
flash/phonics/index.htm
-Play “Guess my
word” – tell your http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phon
child the sounds in emics/greenhouse/greenhouse.html
your word, then
have them guess the
word you are
sounding out.
Example: say Contact Information
“/d/ /o/ /g/, guess
this word! DOG!” Phone: 936.208.8604
Email:
hineshb@jacks.sfasu.edu