EDUC 3760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Phoneme
18 Feb 2020
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What is phonemic awareness: the ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. Activities to encourage phonemic awareness: segmentation, blending, substituting, and deletion. Why is phonemic awareness important for learning to read: developing phonemic awareness allows children to use sound-symbol correspondences (phonics) to make meaning from words. It helps children decode words: phonemic awareness consistently ranks among the highest correlates of reading performance (adams, 1990; foorman, francis, beehler et al. , 1997). Includes focusing on and the manipulation of phonemes, and larger spoken units such as syllables and words: ex: segmenting sentences into words. What types of phonics instruction is most effective: results from research are mixed, organized, explicit and systematic, not necessarily using highly decodable text exclusively- for beginning readers, build on what children know, some argue embedded is most important. Examples for instruction: segment phonemes within a word, blend or combine sequence of separate phonemes into a word, manipulate phonemes to create a new word.
