THEME 2PHONEMIC AWARENESS

Methodology IIIYali Horta Hurtado English PedagogyUniversidad Alberto Hurtado1st Semester, 2013.

Today´s Menu Salad: Playing with sounds Soup: Sounds in English Main Plate: Phonemic Awareness Instruction

Phoneme manipulation: Addition Deletion Substitution

Dessert: A song Homework:

THEMATIC UNIT Select vocabulary that you will use to practice phonemic awareness

with your students.

Playing with sounds

f m p s d h

p r n p t j

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‘‘phonemic awareness is the understanding that speech is composed of a series of individual sounds’’…students must be taught to listen to thesounds of language and become aware of how these sounds work in words, because ‘‘phonemic awareness is both a prerequisite for and a consequence of learning to read’’

Yopp (1992)

Phoneme The smallest unit of sound in spoken language, which when contrasted to other phonemes determines word meaning (e.g., /c/ in cat contrasted with /h/ in hat). Phonemes combine with other phonemes to make words. The word cat has three phonemes, or sounds: /c/ /a/ /t/. McGraw-Hill Glossary of Common Terms

Phoneme manipulation

The skill or action of phoneme addition, phoneme deletion, and phoneme substitution.McGraw-Hill Glossary of Common Terms

A kind of phoneme manipulation in which a sound or sounds are taken away from a spoken word to make a new word. McGraw-Hill Glossary of Common Terms

Phoneme deletion

Phoneme substitution

A kind of phoneme manipulation in which a sound or sounds are deleted from a spoken word and replaced with a new sound or sounds.McGraw-Hill Glossary of Common Terms

Phoneme isolation Recognizing and identifying individual sounds in a spoken word (e.g., /s/ is the first or initial sound in sun, /u/ is the second or middle sound, and /n/ is the last or final sound).McGraw-Hill Glossary of Common Terms

Dessert: A song When two vowels go walking…

THEMATIC UNIT Select vocabulary that you

will use to practice phonemic awareness with your students.

Recommended websites: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ http://soundcityreading.com/

Homework