Building phonemic awareness skills is crucial for reading success!
Phonemic Awareness is the most refined level of phonological awareness and it is the gateway to a comprehensive understanding of the alphabetic principle.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemic Awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made of individual speech sounds, or phonemes, that can be combined in different sequences to create new words.
Why is Correct Phoneme Articulation so important when practicing Phonemic Awareness?
Children with untreated speech sound disorders (not just developmental delays) may be at higher risk for weak phonemic awareness. This could delay the development of reading and spelling.
Pre-K teachers need to provide as much support as possible when children are learning to isolate phonemes. Be very careful not to add the /uh/ sound after consonant sounds.
Examples from the Really Great Reading Launchpad Training Course
The example above is correct when segmenting sounds in feet!
There are no extra sounds when saying each individual sound. Students will correctly blend the sounds together to hear the word feet!
Examples from the Really Great Reading Launchpad Training Course
The example above is incorrect when segmenting sounds in feet!
There are extra sounds after the consonant sound. The /uh/ sound has been added after the /f/ sound and the /t/ sound. Students will blend the sounds together and hear the word fajita instead of feet!
More information on Correct Phoneme Isolation can be found in the
Launchpad Training Course 1 in Module 6.
This video is brought to you by a collaboration between the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology within the consortium program through the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, College of Education and Health Professions and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Health Professions and the Arkansas Department of Education in support of the R.I.S.E. Arkansas initiative of 2017.
When teaching students to read, modeling the correct letter sounds is critical. Learn how to pronounce the 44 phonemes in the English alphabet. Find more free language and literacy resources to include in your lesson plans at www.readrightfromthestart.org
Dr. Holly Lane
UFLI Blendable Sounds
