Ariana Baidal

CLASSWORK

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

1. Explain the following Terms:

 Phoneme Isolation: Recognizig individual sounds in a Word.
 Identification: Recognizing the same sounds in different words.
 Categorization: Recognizing the Word in a set of three or four words that has the
“odd’ ’sound.
 Blending: Listening to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes and combining the
phonemes to form a Word.
 Segmenting – Deletion: Breaking a Word into its separate sounds and saying each
sound as it is tapped out, counted, or signaled.
 Addition: Making a new Word by adding a phoneme to an existing Word.
 Substitution: Substituting one phoneme for another to make a new Word

PROBLEMS WITH PHONOLOGICAL AND PHONEMIC AWARENESS

1. What is the difference between phonological and phonemic awareness?

Phonological awareness is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral
language and Phonemic awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate
individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

2. What do children say when they find phonological or phonemic awareness difficult?

They express their frustration and difficulties in a general way, with statements like "I hate
reading!" or "This is stupid!".

3. How can a teacher identify that a child has problems?

He has a hard time telling how many syllables there are in the word paper. He has difficulty
with rhyming, syllabication, or spelling a new word by its sound.

4. How can teachers help the children with problems with phonological or phonemic
awareness? (Explain by using your own words)
 Teacher can do extra exercises with the children.
 Teacher can reinforce the activities and instructions given

PHONICS: HOW TO TEACH PHONICS TO CHILDREN

1. What is phonics?

Phonics is a method for teaching children how to read and write in English However,
for a young child who is learning English as a second language, learning to read and
write in English is the final part of the process.

2. What is the difference between Decode and Encode?

 When children see a letter, and they can say the sound that it represents, they are
DECODING.
ENCODING means writing Children will need to learn to write each letter first and then
blend them to start writing short words.

3. Read the following statements and write TRUE or FALSE. Correct the false ones.

a) There are 54 different sounds in English. Some of these exist in other

languages. FALSE ( There are 44 sounds in English.)

b) It is a important to look at how people who speak English move their mouth to
produce the sounds, so children can learn to move their mouth (and tongue) in
the same way. TRUE

c) The reading process starts when a whole word is encoded. FALSE (Children
learn to decode so that afterward they can read.)

d) Once children start decoding, we have to help them become fluent readers, so
that they can encode the words quickly and can understand them. TRUE

e) It is important to have children point to each word (and picture) as they read
to help the brain make the connection between the sound of the word and the
word itself. TRUE