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Teaching Phonological Awareness

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    • ASU
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      #2257
      • In what ways will you incorporate phonological awareness teaching strategies into your daily teaching? 
      • How will you ensure your teaching is multisensory? 
      • What questions do you have?
    • rhondajordan2012
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      #2582

      – I will incorporate phonological awareness teaching strategies into my daily teaching by using multiple 5 minutes sessions to practice skills as a warmup or a brain break for my students.
      – To ensure my teaching is multisensory I will incorporate manipulatives like magnetic letters or just letters, stand and clap/stomp it out, and that sort of physical activity that would bring whole body engagement into the learning experience.
      – None at this time. I need to process all this before I have questions.

      • roberta.deaso
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        #3084

        I love the idea of stomping it out too. I think giving the kids the chance to stomp or jump really helps those kinesthetic learners and gets out the kindergarten wiggles.

      • sb861
        Participant
        #3708

        I love the idea of having multiple smaller sessions throughout the day! This would probably make practicing phonological awareness more fun for students and give them a chance to demonstrate their best efforts without being bored or burnt out!

    • charlotte.reading
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      #2974

      I am currently incorporating phonological awareness by focusing on spelling rules. I teach third grade, so most of my kids can read. We spend 10-15 minutes each day go over rules such as when we use ay or ai. We review prior skills that have been taught as well. I do some phonics in small group with my struggling readers. It is a lot of decoding.

      I do need to bring in more multisensory. I need more ideas for that. We do clap out syllables, but It would be great to have more options.

      My questions would be what other ways can I integrate multisensory. Also, is there a specific order that I should be teaching spelling rules?

      • susan.spigelmire
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        #2984

        Your district should have a scope and sequence for what phonics skills need to be taught. Making sure it goes from least challenging to more challenging. If they don’t you can always google one. Thesixshifts.com has some great resources.

      • roberta.deaso
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        #3086

        You can use GoNoodle to help with the multisensory approach. I love it because you can use the curricular cards or create your own. You can then use those cards to play games like Montana James, Freeze Dance, and Hot Dog Field Trip. I have played these games with every grade level from Kindergarten to 6th. They all love to play a game or dance around so much that they don’t even realize that they are learning.

    • charlotte.reading
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      #2975

      I am curious what grade level you teach. I may be spending too much time with my lessons 🙂 This is all new to me and I teach third grade. It is great that you bring in so many multisensory activities to your lesson!

      • susan.spigelmire
        Participant
        #2985

        Your PA lessons should take less than 10 mins a day. Short and sweet is key along with doing it daily.

      • marialignos
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        #3801

        Thank you for suggesting GoNoodle. I will look into the games you suggested. Great idea.

    • susan.spigelmire
      Participant
      #2983

      I currently use Heggerty Phonemic Awareness daily in my classroom. I am Orton Gillingham trained so I also use a multi-sensory approach to my learning. I do not have any questions about PA.

    • roberta.deaso
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      #3083

      In what ways will you incorporate phonological awareness teaching strategies into your daily teaching?
      I use Heggerty now, but I will play more games and strive to make the learning more fun.

      How will you ensure your teaching is multisensory?
      I use many different things, like magnetic letters, blocks, and letter/sound locks. I will continue to use these and more.

      What questions do you have?
      None right now.

    • roberta.deaso
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      #3085

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    • williwoodz
      Participant
      #3181

      1. An a-ha for me was not to assume background knowledge. I will incorporate phonological awareness in multiple short lessons that contain manipulatives and movement. No questions.

    • williwoodz
      Participant
      #3182

      I agree GoNoodle is a great tool and the kids love it!

    • williwoodz
      Participant
      #3183

      Agree! Short and sweet is best!

    • williamcorrtez
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      #3604

      1. How will you incorporate phonological awareness teaching strategies into your daily teaching?
      Knowing about them, I would try to spend a few minutes at the beginning of class to go over the levels of phonological awareness. perhaps not all on the same day, but every day designate a review from the most basic to the most complex as the days of the week progress. I would try to identify those students who are further behind and try to help them in conjunction with a student who already has the most developed ability. You could make pairs of students and develop some dynamic at the beginning of the class with the aim of reinforcing some skill.

      2. How will you ensure that your teaching is multi-sensory?
      Through the manipulation of different objects, be it plastic letters, word cards, blocks for reviewing syllables. Watching videos or repeating songs that help me to reinforce some skill. Also invite parents to be able to download an app of phonemes or words where students can practice from their homes and put technology to positive use.

      3. no questions.

      • sb861
        Participant
        #3707

        I really like your idea of having an app that parents can use to practice phonological skills! I think this would also help them to understand the basics of phonics themselves so they can correct errors and reinforce understanding of phonics rules when reading with their child at home!

    • sb861
      Participant
      #3706

      1. I plan to incorporate phonological awareness into my reading instruction by giving students lots of opportunities to practice these skills throughout the day. I want to use games in my language rotations to help them enjoy practicing it, ask them to practice during transitions or morning meeting, and incorporate videos and songs that they will like as movement breaks or lesson openers.

      2. I plan to use lots of flashcards and letter tiles that students can manipulate to create words. For my students with disabilities, I also want to have pictures of how to form letter sounds with their mouth and pictures of common cvc or cvce words that I can use to assess their responses when reading.

      3. My question at this time is: what is the progression of phonological awareness skills that my students need to “master” before moving on to other related skills?

    • adsterry7
      Participant
      #3709

      I currently use the Haggerty Phonological Awareness daily with my students. By the end of the year they made greater progress than previous years.

      • marialignos
        Participant
        #3800

        I currently use the Orton-Gillingham approach. My student also made greater progress.

    • jmaddox80
      Participant
      #3735

      1. I incorporate phonemic awareness into the beginning of my ELA lessons. I use phonemic awareness as a warm up so my students are are hearing words broken into parts and manipulating sounds to create words or to change words. Phonemic awareness helps in both reading and writing. I have found that when I try to skip the 5-7 minute phonemic awareness warm-up, my students struggle more when it comes to their reading and writing. Over the years, I have found that phonemic awareness is the foundation and we must follow the scope and sequence to ensure that we are moving through the skills in a way that allows our students to build on their understanding of words and their sounds. My district currently uses 95% as the phonics curriculum. It is a scripted program that provides the the amount of time for each phonemic awareness activity, along with the specific words that should be used.

      2. There are many ways to make teaching phonological awareness a multisensory event. Stomping the syllables, putting the left out out for the onset and the right hand out for the rime, touching your should for the beginning sound, elbow for the middle sound, and wrist for the ending sound, and smashing a small ball of playdough for each sound in the word are fun ways to include multiple senses.

      3. I don’t have any questions at this time.

    • marialignos
      Participant
      #3798

      I will incorporate Explicit Instruction. following the 4 steps: Explanation, Demonstration, Modeling, and Practice.
      My teaching method will be multi-sensory by incorporating games such as I spy where students will have to get up out of their seats and look for items. I will also have them stomp or clap. I will also use tiles.
      My question is how to explain words that do not fit phonological rules such as the word July. July does not follow the y long i rule.

    • marialignos
      Participant
      #3799

      I like that your district uses scripted instruction. When I tutor I also use a script. The only challenge that using a script poses is making it not sound scripted.

    • grael
      Participant
      #4016

      Gloria Rael I always make sure that the students have a strong knowledge in the letters and their sound. I knopw that it is very important for them to be able to be successful in reading and also for them to love to read.

    • grael
      Participant
      #4017

      I now know the importance for teachers to teach the letters and the sound for the students to be able to learn to read. As a student, I had a lot of trouble to read, and it really frustrated me. Now, I try that students like to read, so that soon the students will love to read.

    • grael
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      #4018

      Gloria Rael My question is, I wonder what will be the requirements for a preschooler or kindergartener? Let see if I am still alive to know what those requirements will be! I am 64 years old.

    • grael
      Participant
      #4038

      Gloria Rael In my school teachers teach the letters and the sounds to our little ones. Some students understand the relationship between the two. On the other hand, some do not have a clue. we will continue and see what happens.

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