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Dear Families,

Remember you can always contact me via email at heidi.travis@jeffco.k12.co.us or call me at 970-703-6835.  

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Ms. Heidi

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First Sound Fluency and Phonemic Awareness

In Montessori Primary classroom, children start at the age of three, developing Phonemic Awareness.  Phonemes are the sounds in the English language.  Children start with the first sound they hear in a word.  Soon, they begin to hear the final or ending sound in a word.  Before long a child will hear all the sounds in a word.  c-a-t.  A well developed sense of phonemes or the sounds you hear in a word, is directly related to a child's ability to decode and read words.  

The sound or the phoneme is different from the name of a letter.  

One game we play in Montessori Primary Classrooms is called "I Spy".  A number of familiar objects are chosen and laid out in front of the child.  Each object is chosen for it's first sound.  If a child struggles with phonemic awareness, we might choose several objects with the same first sound.  After naming each object, the adult will say, "I spy something that starts with the sound.....sssssss."  The child should 

CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) word lists