Phonemic Awareness: Noticing

Read the poem several times.  Ask the students what they notice.  Teacher says sounds. Students count how many sounds.  Teacher says sounds.  Students repeat sounds. 

/g/ /m/  /t/  [3]

Teacher says sounds.  Students repeat sounds.  Students blend sounds into a word.  Students draw a picture of the word.  After all the students draw, they hold up their picture and show everyone else.  Then one child says the word for everyone else.  Do we agree?  How do we know? 

/d/ /o/ /g/

/c/ /a/ /t/

/f/ /r/ /o/ /g/  – Do your students realize there are 4 sounds in frog?

/h/ /a/ /t/

More Phonemic Awareness in Lessons (part 2)

1.  Students clap the number of syllables in their first name when their name is called in attendance.  (Debbie – 2 claps) (Deb – 1 clap) (Elizabeth – 4 claps)

2.  Students clap the number of syllables in their last name when their name is called in attendance. (Renner – 2 claps) (Smith – 1 clap)

3. Introduce the /__/ sound.  Repeat for another sound.  Compare the 2 sounds.  Who has the /__/ in their name?  Who does not have /__/ in the their name?

4. Have the child sing the song (or another song that has rhymes in it), “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”  Identify the words that rhyme.  Talk about why the words rhyme.