5 Fun & Easy Ideas for Segmenting and Blending Phonemes

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…

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Pocket Charts: 3 NEW Reasons for Using This “Old-Fashioned” Resource

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…

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Phonemic Awareness: Step 6 Helping Students Thrive with Phonemes
Phonemic Awareness: Phonological Awareness Step 6 Empowers Students with Manipulating Phonemes

Phonemic Awareness: Step 6 Helping Students Thrive with Phonemes

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…

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Segmenting and Blending with Phonemic Awareness: A Powerful Step 6 in Phonological Awareness

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,…

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Syllable Awareness: Step 4 Phonological Awareness Counting Word Parts to Build Word Smarts

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…

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Sentence Segmentation: Step 3 Phonological Awareness Makes Each Word Count!

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…

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Alliteration and Rhyme: Step 2 Phonological Awareness helps students productively play with words

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…

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Listening Skills: Step 1 Phonological Awareness Builds Successful Readers One Sound at a Time

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…

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