Intervention Category I: Strategies for Teaching Phonemic Awareness
In the BookPlaying with Rhymes and Alliteration
Teachers often use books, songs, or poems to teach the concepts of rhyme and alliteration. Grab the Odd One Out Students are given a list of words (either rhyming or alliteration, skill dependent) and they choose the one that does not follow the rule. Picture Box Sound Counting This activity helps students count the sounds in words. They will move a chip to the sound box for every phoneme in the given word. Beginning with Children's Names Use class roster to introduce phonemic awareness tasks. By using the students' names they will become more motivated. Add a Sound/Take a Sound Using a familiar song, story, or rhyme add or substitute sound. This is easier than segmenting phonemes but has the same benefits. Sing It Out Use a familiar song (ex. "If Your Happy and You Know It") to sound out words. Blending sounds together is a critical skill for successful readers. Students listen to spoken words (ex. /c/ /a/ /t/) and students blend them together to say the words. Word Rubber Banding Students stretch out the sounds in a word that they want to segment. |
In the ClassroomFirst 5 minutes of reading block
"Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Peterpumpkin.shtml Monday: watch video (below) Tuesday: Echo read (teach read kids repeat), choral read poem (all read together) Wednesday: Change the beginning sound in Peter, pumpkin, and put from /p/ to /m/. Read a couple of times and ask kids to pick a sound. Thursday: Students circle rhyming words. Friday: Choral read, watch video, let kids "teach." Activity
Describe how you teach phonemic awareness in your classroom. If you do not, pick an activity described on pages 149-154 that you could use in your classroom to help students who struggle with phonemic awareness.
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Intervention Category II: Strategy For Learning about Letters
In the bookUsing Environmental Print
Students use cereal boxes, candy wrappers, drink labels, ect. to learn how sounds and letters go together. |
In the classroomI would like to get parents to send in their child's favorite food labels to make a word wall with environmental print.
I use Fundations, a Wilson program, to teach the letters of the alphabet. This program puts the letter with a picture and the letter sound together. (ex. Aa - apple - /a/). ActivityDescribe how you use or could use environmental print in your classroom to aid in learning letter knowledge.
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Intervention Category III: Teaching the Alphabetic System
In the Book
Playing with the Alphabet
Students can learn the alphabetic principal by playing game like learning opportunities to make the connections between letter names and sounds. Reading Published Alphabet Books Alphabet books can help students understand the elements of the alphabet. The books connect the order, letter shape, and sounds of the alphabet. |
In the Classroom
I use centers to give students the opportunity to play with the alphabet. Students get letter tiles and a shelf. They begin the year putting the alphabet in order. The eventually begin copying their sight words off the word wall and once they can "tap" out words they begin building their own words. By the end of they year some students will build sentences that they write and illustrate in their writing center.
Each year as we learn the letters of the alphabet the students make their own alphabet book. We make animals with hand prints and the students write a sentence (ex. Ss is for spider.) Once the whole alphabet is complete students will put the book in order. Activity
Tell about what you use or could use to teach the alphabetic system in your classroom.
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