Phonemic Awareness Assignment and Discussion Flashcards
Adams Paper “The Elusive Phoneme”
What is the Phoneme?
Teaching and young children: Listenning, Rhymes, Sentences, Syllables, Initial Final Sounds, Phonemes, Letters and Spellings
We look for gestalt and skip over the importance of the sounds that make them up.
The sounds can very from speaker to speaker via dialect.
Torgesen “What every Teacher should know about Phonemes”
Phoneme’s are the smallest unit of speech sound.
We string them together to make words. There are 44.
Early Rhyming games show ability.
Alphabetic Principle: Words are represented by phonemes in out language.
Phonemic awareness helps: Alphabetic Principal, Forms automaticity (sight word representation), decoding unfamiliar words,
Low PA correlates to low reading and decoding growth.
Normal Development: K Rhyme segmentation, 1 isolate sounds 2-3 phoneme words blend 4 blend five Initial and end.
Research conducted over the last 20 years has shown children vary signifi- cantly “in the phonological component of their natural capacity for language” (Liberman, Shankweiler, & Liberman, 1989).
Direct instruction works teaching rhymes not as much as teaching how to identify sounds in words better.
