Elkonin boxes are a powerful visual tool grounded in Science of Reading for building phonemic awareness, phonics skills, and early decoding abilities. By segmenting sounds (phonemes) into boxes, students develop a stronger understanding of sound-symbol relationships. I have blogged about…
Compound Words are fun! Are you looking for creative ways to enhance your students' phonological awareness and word-building skills? Check out compound words! While forming compound words and combining two or more words to create a new one, offer a…
Segmenting and Blending phonemes in the early grades is not just a game, it’s crucial. This vital part of phonemic awareness will lead to future success in decoding and encoding. For kindergarten and first-grade teachers, fostering phoneme segmenting and blending…
Successive Blending can help new reader with decoding automaticity. Kindergarten is a magical time in a child's life where the foundations for learning are laid, and curiosity is at its peak. I talked about the importance of blending, Phonological Awareness…
Pocket Charts USED TO BE a staple in classrooms. In today's rapidly advancing technological landscape, it's easy to be swept away by the allure of digital tools and interactive screens, especially in educational settings. However, there's something timeless and effective…
Let's wrap this up with Phonemic Awareness. As mentioned before, Phonological Awareness is oral and students need to understand letters and sounds before the symbols are added. Previously, we have looked at matching beginning (alliteration) and ending (rhyming) sounds...moved to…
We have come to Step 6 in Phonological Awareness, and I think it's the biggest. I have decided to break it into 3 parts. This post will talk about Segmenting and Blending and next week's post is about Adding, Deleting,…
I love word families! If you've read my blog before you know I have several posts all about word families or onset and rime. Helping students break down words between the onset and rime can help build a foundation for…
Step 4 in Phonological Awareness deals with word parts and counting syllables. We started with words with sentence segmentation and now we're moving to word parts. This IS NOT a blog post about syllable types, we're just talking the introduction…
Step3 of Phonological Awareness is sentence segmentation. This is such a great way help students distinguish between sounds, syllables, and words. I have always done sentence segmentation during small group instruction and whole group writing instruction, but more on that…
Step 2 of Phonological Awareness is alliteration and rhyme. This is gonna be fun. I love playing with words and watching the students have fun while they are learning. Even though these go together for Step 2, they are equally…
Listening with Phonological Awareness is about listening for sounds and discriminating the sounds. I was talking to a new teacher and she was frustrated by all the *NEW* stuff they were required to do in small group. She didn't feel…
