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This learning object is designed for educators to implement for children in Kindergarten. However, we extended our audience to educators providing intervention to students struggling with phonemic awareness in any grade. Our learning object is designed by the information from the new Ontario Language Curriculum for learners from Kindergarten to Grade 4 learning levels.
This learning object is designed for educators to implement for children in Kindergarten. However, we extended our audience to educators providing intervention to students struggling with phonemic awareness in any grade. Our learning object is designed by the information from the new Ontario Language Curriculum for learners from Kindergarten to Grade 4 learning levels.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
Phonemic awareness is a subsection of the phonological awareness skill, which is identifying the sound structure within words. Having the knowledge of phonemic awareness is a crucial factor of building literacy and language skills. We broke down teaching the skill of phonemic awareness into three learning objectives.
1 By the end of these activities, the learner will be able to identify the sounds of the letters in the alphabet within the beginning, middle, and end of words.
2 By the end of these activities, the learner will be able to apply letter sounds by orally blending letter sounds in simple words.
3 By the end of these activities, the learner will dissect simple words with more than two letter sounds by segmenting words with multiple syllables.
These learning objectives reflect the Ontario Language Curriculum for grades 1-4. For more information about these learning goals, click the link.
Throughout our website, we have provided various tools to support different learning styles. This is done using videos, interactive activities, books, and non-digital activities. The instructional design of our website and the resources we provided incorporate the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to ensure that all learning styles can benefit from our Learning Objectives.
What is Phonological Awareness?
What is Phonological Awareness?
The ability to recognize and manipulate the individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken language. This includes skills like rhyming, blending, segmenting, and deleting sounds in words and is a fundamental skill for developing strong reading and spelling abilities in children.
What is Phonemic Awareness?
What is Phonemic Awareness?
The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. This includes blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds and changing letters to make new words.
Why is this Important?
Why is this Important?
Paulson (2004) confirmed the hierarchy of phonological skill acquisition in 5-year-olds entering kindergarten. Only 7 percent of 5-year-olds who had not yet had kindergarten could segment phonemes in spoken words. The production of rhymes was more difficult for 5-year-olds than commonly assumed, as only 61 percent could give a rhyming word for a stimulus. Only 29 percent could blend single phonemes into whole words. Although some young students will pick up these skills relatively easily during the kindergarten year — especially if the curriculum includes explicit activities — other students must be taught these metalinguistic skills directly and systematically.
Right to Read Inquiry Report
On October 3, 2019, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) announced a public inquiry into human rights issues that affect students with reading disabilities in Ontario’s public education system. The Right to Read inquiry, which focused on early reading skills, found that Ontario’s public education system is failing students with reading disabilities (such as dyslexia) and many others, by not using evidence-based approaches to teach them to read.
The Right to Read inquiry report highlights how learning to read is not a privilege but a basic and essential human right. The report includes 157 recommendations to the Ministry of Education, school boards and faculties of education on how to address systemic issues that affect the right to learn to read. The report combines research, human rights expertise and lived experience of students, parents and educators to provide recommendations on curriculum and instruction, early screening, reading interventions, accommodation, professional assessments and systemic issues. Implementing the OHRC’s recommendations will ensure more equitable opportunities and outcomes for students in Ontario’s public education system.
Right to Read: It is time for change in Ontario
"The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Right to Read inquiry found that by not using evidence-based approaches to teach students to read, Ontario’s public education system is failing students with reading disabilities such as dyslexia. Here’s a snapshot of the key findings and recommendations. By working with communities and stakeholders, and by monitoring key developments, the OHRC is committed to making sure #RightToRead is not just another report, but a roadmap for progress."
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Almost Half of Adult Canadians Struggle with Literacy
Almost Half of Adult Canadians Struggle with Literacy
It's no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted all aspects of our lives. It not only affected our social lives and contributions within communities but also our development on essential life skills needed for quality of life. Literacy skills is not something that once you've mastered, this skill is with you life, its a skill that needs to be constantly exercised and utilized. Micheal Burt from the Conference Board of Canada states "we're below average compared to other OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] countries in terms of adult literacy, numeracy skills." With this data, it tells us that this can negatively impact our democracy and economy (Chin. 2021).
Literacy Skills can Impact your Job Opportunities
Literacy Skills can Impact your Job Opportunities
Not having these fundamental skills in literacy and numeracy knowledge, can effect all parts of our lives. We need to know how to read labels on products to know what's inside them, we need to know what street signs say to ensure were following the laws, we should know how to read recipes and/or food products to ensure we're getting the correct ingredients. If we don't have these literacy skills, it makes these task all more challenging, especially when it comes to employment. Many jobs require you to preform literacy skills and depending on the job, the level of intensity is high. Literacy skills are not only essential for your personal well being but for your professional life as well (PBS NewsHour. 2019).
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