I love our reading series, but for kindergarten they only gave about 3-5 practice words a day to use with the phonemic awareness component. Many students come to kindergarten and they already have phonemic awareness skills. However, many do not. Four years ago when I was working on my reading specialist certification I had to read this book as part of an inquiry project. I really liked it because it really explained the importance of phonemic awareness. I think my "ah ha" moment when I was researching for this project was the following:
Research
indicates that phonological awareness is the best predictor of the ease of
early reading acquisition (Stanovich, 1986).
However, it is important to remember
that children need to develop all aspects of language and literacy awareness in
order to become successful readers (Chapman, 2003).
This fall, to help out the kindergarten teachers, I made this phonemic awareness set. It is only meant to take about two minutes a day, but gives extra practice for students. Instead of just 5 words a day, many days there are 15 extra words. It is meant to last for at least 30 days. I recommend using this in small groups. It is free today!!!! I just updated it with more practice words (thank you snow day)!
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References (Please forgive my lack of APA formatting...it is hard on a blog)
Stanovich,
K.E. (1986). Matthew effects in reading:
Some consequences of individual differences in the acquisition of literacy. Reading Research Quarterly, 21, 360-406.
Chapman, M. L. (2003). Phonemic
awareness: Clarifying what we know and implications for practice. Literacy Teaching and
Learning, 7, 91-114.
Hi Bridget,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great resource to use in small groups- thanks a bunch for the freebie!
Aylin
Learning to the Core
Love that book! I use it daily with my lowest kindergarten books. These kids had virtually NO phonemic awareness and still struggle with rhymes and syllables even at this point in the year. We just keep going back to it!
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Reading Toward the Stars
Great Post! I tried to download and it didn't work.
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ReplyDeleteIncorporating phonemic awareness activities in a classroom is beneficial to the students learning. I'm glad you take this seriously!
ReplyDeleteI have this phonemic awareness book. I haven't gotten to read it yet. Reading about common core right now. But I so agree that phonemic awareness is hugely important! :)
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