to Teach
Phonemic Awareness
Objective: To explicitly help children to analyze the segmenting and blending of phonemes and to better understand the alphabetic principle in decoding and spelling.
Materials:
- Copy the cell boxes below (adding more cells in needed) and laminate.
- Colored circles, unifix cubes, or colored blocks.
- Dry erase pen.
- Word List (High Frequency Words or Commonly Misspelled Words)
Procedure:
- Pronounce a word from the Word List (stretching it out).
- Ask
the child to repeat the word.
- Have the child count the number of phonemes in the word, not necessarily the number of letters. For example, fish has three phonemes and will use three boxes. /f/, /i/, /sh/
- Direct the child to slide one colored circle (or unifix cube or colored block) in each cell of the Elkonin box diagram as he/she repeats the word.
- Have the child write the word above the boxes using a dry erase marker.
An
example might look like the following:
Or if phonemes are repeated the example would look like this:
