Phonemic Awareness Program

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Phonemic Awareness Program
Sargent Park Kindergarten

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  Facilitated By
• Mrs. Pointon Ms. Routledge Mrs.
  Colina Mrs. Kowall
• Kindergarten Resource Speech
  Language Reading
• Teacher Teacher
  Clinician Clinician
• 
  2002-03

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What Is Phonemic Awareness?

• It is the strongest predictor of reading success
  for your child.
• It is the awareness of sounds in spoken language,
  and recognizing the connections of these sounds,
  with alphabet letters.
• It is an awareness of alliteration, rhyme, and
  segmentation.

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How Was The Program Run?

• Students received daily instruction from November
  to May.
• One letter sound was introduced to the students
  each week.

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• There were large group activities (whole class).
• And
• Small group activities.

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• A phonemic awareness pre-test was given to
  students in October.
• A post-test was given to students in May, at the
  end of the program.

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Large Group Activities

• Mrs. Pointon ran the large group activities in
  her classroom.
• Those activities included

-Alfies Letter -Sound Puppet
-Finger Cue -Sound Bag -Work
Sheet -Art Activity -Secret Snack
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• Alfies
• Letter

Dear Boys And Girls, My friend Rory rides a
really red a bike. He races up and down the
road, making an outrageous racket! Rory is a red
rabbit. Have you seen him race around on the
road? Look at my rocket, ram, rake,
and ribbon. Love, Alfie
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Sound Bags

• A sound bag was sent home at the beginning of
  each week.
• After filling the bag with pictures objects
  that begin with the letter sound, the students
  shared their sound bag with an adult at school,
  every Friday.

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Finger Cue

• Each sound has a finger cue to prompt the
  students.

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Sound Puppet

• Each alphabet letter has a puppet character.

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Small Group Activities

• Different small group activities were run by
• - Mrs. Colina, who taught alliteration,
• -Mrs. Kowall, who taught segmentation,
• and
• -Ms. Routledge, who taught a review lesson
  where students made their own letter sound books.

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What Is Alliteration?

• Words beginning with the same sound.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
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Alliteration Activities

• Students were exposed to letter sounds through
  books, poems, and rhymes.

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• Sounds were demonstrated to the students, using
  mirrors, a Mouthy Mouth puppet, and finger
  cues.

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• Children pulled objects out of a bag, that all
  began with the same target sound.

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• Games
• My secret word is an animal. Its name starts
  with the /d/ sound, and it barks. What is my
  secret word?

• Simon says, if my word starts with the /t/
  sound,
• turn around. Tooth

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• Picture Card Game
• Find the picture beginning with the /m/ sound
  pig, monkey.

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• Picture Card Game
• Which one doesnt belong?

moon
dog
man
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• More Picture Card Games
• Sorting pictures by the first sound.
• Whats the first sound of the picture?

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• More Games
• How many words can you name that begin with
  the /s/ sound ?

• What is the first/ last sound of this
  
• word? S a t

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What Is Rhyme?

• Words ending with the same sound.
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bat
hat
cat
frog
log
dog
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What Is Segmentation?

• Segmentation is being able to hear parts in
  words
• Syllables pic / nic
• and
• Sounds s o - ck

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Segmentation Activities

• Segmenting Names Into Syllables
• -Clapping syllables of names Ev / an
• -Beating each syllable of a name on a drum.

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• Syllable Game
• Look at a picture card. Say the word in its
  syllable parts. Jump in a different hula hoop on
  each syllable.
• (Vi o lin)

Vi
o
lin
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• Elkonin Sound Boxes Tokens
• Look at a picture card.
• Put a token in a box for
• each sound that you hear
• when you say the word.
• B oo k

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• Hearing Minimal Sound Differences
• Point to the picture when I say the word

bowl, bone, bows, boat, bones,
bow
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• Auditory Blending Of Sounds Into Words
• What word am I saying?

C - a - t
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Review Activities

• Students reviewed the targeted letter sound its
  finger cue.
• Students chanted the letter sound poem.

R says r R says r Run the motor
Run the motor R r r

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• Students looked at several picture cards that
  began with the targeted letter sound, and clapped
  the syllables.

Radio
Rooster

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• Students drew two pictures in their sound book.
  They were encouraged to print the word from the
  picture card.

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• Students moved their finger, from left to right
  under each word, as they read the poem to the
  teacher.

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Has The Phonemic Awareness ProgramMade A
Difference At Sargent Park School?
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Future Plans

• To continue the Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness
  program at Sargent Park School.