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= **Phonological Awareness ** =

DIBELS -- Measures of Phonological Awareness: Initial Sound Fluency (ISF) and Phonemic Segmentation Fluency (PSF) media type="custom" key="3710469" [|**Phonemic Segmentation**] **watch this video where Lousia Moats explains the importance of phonemic segmentation e ** [|Phonological Awareness Activities] Here are the Free-Reading activities for Phonological Awareness: helping students to recognize and manipulate parts of spoken language, including words, syllables, onsets, rimes, and phonemes.
 * ===== ===== || **[|Kindergarten Phonological Awareness Overview]**this site offers a great information on phonological awareness in Kindergarten. || ===== ===== ||

Phonemic Awareness falls under the umbrella of Phonological Awareness. Phonemic Awareness skills involve the blending and segmenting of phonemes in spoken words. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that make a difference to meaning. This article written by David Chard and Shirley V. Dickson (1999) will help you understand the benefits of provideing quality phonological awareness instruction to your students. [|Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines].
 * Resources for Students **
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 * [|Jake's Tale]- provides a story focusing on the **long a** sound in words that end with e. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Pete's Sheep]- provides a story focusing on the **long e** sound in "ee" words. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Sky Ride]- provides a story focusing on the **long i** sound in words that end with e. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Robot and Mr. Mole]- provides a story focusing on the **long o** sound in words that end with e. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Duke and June]- provides a story focusing on the **long u** sound in words that end with e. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Soap Boat]- provides a story focusing on the **long o** sound in words that have "oa" in the middle. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Car Race]- provides a story focusing on the **r controlled vowel a** sound including Carla, Mark, cart, and star. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|My Horse Glory]- provides a story focusing on the **r controlled vowel o** sound including horse, Glory, Tory, and thorn. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Surfer Girl]- provides a story focusing on the **r controlled vowel e, i, and o** sound including fern, bird, and surf. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|My Family]- provides a story focusing on the **y as a vowel** sound. Students can click on words they don't know and it reads them phonetically. Theme: Alphabet

[|Starfall Downloadable Worksheets]- This section of Starfall has worksheets available for free download that correspond to each online book. The worksheets reinforce initial sounds, phonemic segmentation, rhyming and sentence writing. Theme: Alphabet ||

[|**Zac the Rat**]- provides practice blending spoken phonemes to form a single syllable word focusing on the short a sound.

[|Peg the Hen]- provides practice blending spoken phonemes to form a single syllable word focusing on the short e sound.

[|Gawain's Word]- provides practice putting phonemes together to create a word.

[|Chicken Stacker]- provides practice finding words with short a, i, e, o and u sounds.

[|Reggie the Rhyming Rhino]- students select an environment such as home, store, restaurant, etc. and must find rhyming words.

[|Phonological Awareness]: Lessons for an Accelerated Reading Program this site offers several fun activites to try in your classroom that focus on phonemic awareness.
 * Resources for Teachers**

Phonemic Awareness
Activties to enrich [|Phonemic Awareness] [|A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy] Lesson plans, printable activites, illustrated rhymes, picture cards, nursery rhymes [|**TheEFL Playhouse**]
 * Nursery Rhymes** are a great resource. Check out these links for ideas for incorporating nursery rhymes in your classroom.

[|**The Games Children Play**]- this article contains great ideas for games incorporating Phonemic Awareness to use in the classroom and ideas to include in a newsletter for parents. [|Strategies for Teaching Phonemic Awareness] This site offers ideas for activities that you can use in your classroom. [|Picture Cards]- You could use these cards as you work with small groups on phonemic awareness skills.