This article reviews information about phonemic awareness in reading and how we learn how to read.

Heggerty Phonemic Awareness is a well-organized 35-week curriculum of daily phonemic awareness lesson plans. It is developed on a systematic scope and sequence of skills, each level focuses on eight phonemic awareness skills, along with two additional activities to develop Letter and Sound recognition, and language awareness. The lessons are designed to deliver Tier 1 phonemic awareness instruction in a whole group setting and only take 10-12 minutes.

Dr. Kay McPhee provides her opinion on the importance of phonemic awareness in younger students.

Anne Cunningham's study looks at explicit versus implicit instruction in phonemic awareness.

This document provides activities for four, five, and six-year old's in phonemic awareness. It begins by breaking down the definition and provides support for its development.

This website reviews strategies that provide five simple ways to build phonics skills and phonemic awareness.

Through the Heggerty website, there are tons of free samples of assessments and resources to be used as a guide. There are COVID-19 E-learning lessons, sample lessons, assessments for preschoolers and kindergarteners, Spanish assessments, flashcards, and information on state and national standards.

Really Great Reading provides information for struggling readers with fun animations that assist readers in phonemic awareness. There are also practice activities for students, as well as workshops and professional developments listed on the website.

This 30 minute webinar provides a lesson plan overview that integrates advanced phonemic analysis with explicit phonics instruction.

Carolyn Turner is a Literacy Lead for the State of Ohio and she is presenting a webinar on advanced phonemic awareness. Throughout this webinar, Turner provides information that will help support teachers in language and literacy practice from second grade all the way up to the high school level.

Reading Rocket provides information on phonological and phonemic awareness. There are also resources for teachers and parents, as well as strategies to be implemented in the classroom.

This website has the Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST) that is used as an assessment tool for screening the phonological awareness skills of students.

This webinar is presented by Michele Elia, one of two of Ohio’s Literacy Leads. Throughout this presentation, Elia will explain what phonological and phonemic awareness is, how phonological awareness fits into the science of language and literacy instruction, learn how to teach the lessons and practice evidence-based strategies for delivering lessons, and finally, understand how phonological awareness fits within a multi-tiered system of support for reading instruction.

In this video, Pam Kastner speaks about sound walls after an interest was sparked during an 8-week book study hosted in June 2020. Kastner discusses tips, strategies, and how to implement sound walls into a classroom.

Sound City Reading provides a way for students to practice saying the sounds of different images and objects. Click on the play button below each picture to hear the different sounds. Teachers, parents, tutors, and schools may download and print PDF files to use with the students they teach. Teaching videos are free to watch, and they may be downloaded for personal use, at home or in the classroom.

This website provides many resources on how to understand phonemic awareness. There is a review of the basics and why they are so important, a comprehensive curriculum for teaching phonemic awareness which includes lesson plans with scope and sequence, there is information on critical concepts, and tips and suggestions for how to plan your own phonemic awareness lessons.

Watch Heidi teach her class using a Michael Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lesson!

Heggerty Phonemic Awareness reviews how to identify medial sounds by using hand motions. This is used as a strategy to help students learn how to read.

This video reviews phonemic awareness and what it can look like in your literacy block. There is a discussion on what phonemic awareness is, how to work with lessons through explicit instruction in sounds, and why it is so important to teach.

Dr. Jan Hasbrouck discusses the various types of literacy interventions and stresses the importance of phonemic awareness.

This video shares basic information about some terminology surrounding the teaching of emergent and beginning reading. It focuses on the definitions and distinctions between phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics.

In this video, SRA Open Court Reading Phonemic Awareness sample lesson features teacher Marisa Russo modeling grade K–1 foundational skills.

Reading researcher, Dr. Louisa Moats, explains the need for understanding the alphabetic principle.

When teaching students to read, modeling the correct letter sounds is critical. Learn how to pronounce the 44 phonemes in the English alphabet through this FREE video resource for teachers.

This video is a quick review of how to pronounce sounds when teaching reading. When children are learning to read, they need to blend sounds as they decode. Teachers need to ensure that the sounds they are modeling are sounds that can be blended. Some of the most commonly taught sounds for letters can actually make reading harder for beginners.

Dr. Carol Tolman explains the Hourglass Figure and where the idea originated. This four-part processing system is for word recognition and it helps us understand how we look at a letter, go to a sound, sound it out, and then ask ourselves what does that word really mean in the context in which we are reading or hearing it.

Dr. Carol Tolman explains more information on the Hourglass Figure, but this time, she reviews in more specific detail about the top portion of the four-part processing system.

In this YouTube video, Dr. Carol Tolman now explains the bottom portion of the Hourglass Figure and what it means.

This video is brought to you by the Ohio Department of Education Literacy Conference of 2019. The presenter discusses how and why sound walls are important in reading.

Sound walls are instructional tools that lend themselves to the articulation and phoneme-grapheme correspondence of words. Our language embraces the notion of speech to print matching. A sound wall draws a parallel to this match and the understanding of the "unbuilt circuitry" needed for reading and writing. This event will equip practitioners with the knowledge of our sound system and the evidence-based benefits of incorporating a sound wall into their classrooms. In this session, participants will have an opportunity to establish an implementation plan for a sound wall in their own classrooms.

In this lesson second grade teacher, Lauren Reynolds and her students engage in direct, explicit, literacy instruction and repeated practice of phonemic awareness skills to advanced levels. The lesson opens up with a phonics card pack review and the remainder of the lesson supports the development of the students phonemic awareness skills to advanced levels.

In this video, the speaker discusses how important it is to understand phonemic proficiency in boosting reading skills. This is most especially vital in already struggling readers.