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Phonemic Awareness In Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum

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Marilyn Jager Adams, Barbara R Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, Terri Beeler

  • Phonemic Awareness In Young Children

208 pages
1997
ISBN: 9781557663214

Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness — now known to be an important step to a child's early reading acquisition — this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings.

  • One of the most popular programs available — more than 250,000 copies sold
  • Easy and fun activities that take only 15-20 minutes a day
  • Includes a flexible assessment test that allows group screening
  • Developed by leading experts in reading instruction

With a developmental sequence of activities that follows a school year calendar, teachers can chose from a range of activities for their pre-school, kindergarten, and first-grade classrooms. Plus, the curriculum includes an easy-to-use assessment test for screening up to 15 children at a time. This assessment not only helps to objectively estimate the general skill level of the class and identify children who may need additional testing but may also be repeated every 1-2 months to monitor progress. All children benefit because the curriculum accommodates individualised learning and teaching styles.

Here is everything a teacher needs:

  • Teaching objectives
  • Lesson plans and sample scripts
  • Activity adaptations
  • Troubleshooting guidelines
  • Suggested kindergarten and first-grade schedules
  • Informal, group screening

Table of Contents

  1. The Nature and Importance of Phonemic Awareness
    • What Research Says About Phonemic Awareness
    • About the Structure of Language
    • Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum
    • Notes to the Special Education Teacher
    • The Structure of the Program
  2. The Language Games
    • About the Use of the Language Games
    • Overview of the Program
    • Brief Description of the Games in Practice
  3. Listening Games
    • Listening to Sounds
    • Listening to Sequences of Sounds
    • Jacob, Where Are You?
    • Hiding the Alarm Clock
    • Who Says What?
    • Whisper Your Name
    • Nonsense
    • Whispering Game
    • Do You Remember?
  4. Rhyming
    • Poetry, Songs, and Jingles
    • Rhyme Stories
    • Emphasizing Rhyme Through Movement
    • Word Rhyming
    • Can You Rhyme?
    • The Ship is Loaded With
    • Action Rhymes
    • Rhyme Book
  5. Words and Sentences
    • Introducing the Idea of Sentences
    • Introducing the Idea of a Word
    • Hearing Words in Sentences
    • Exercises with Short and Long Words
    • Words in Context and Out
  6. Awareness of Syllables
    • Clapping Names
    • Take One Thing from the Box
    • The King's/Queen's Successor
    • Listening First, Looking After
    • Troll Talk I: Syllables
  7. Initial and Final Sounds
    • Guess Who
    • Different Words, Same Initial Phoneme
    • Finding Things: Initial Phonemes
    • I'm Thinking of Something
    • Word Pairs I: Take a Sound Away (Analysis)
    • Word Pairs II: Add a Sound (Synthesis)
    • Different Words, Same Final Phoneme
    • Finding Things: Final Phonemes
    • Spider's Web
    • With Word Pair I
    • With Word Pair II
  8. Phonemes
    • Two-Sound Words
    • Basic Three-Sound Words
    • Consonant Blends: Adding and Subtracting Initial Sounds
    • Consonant Blends: Inserting and Removing Internal Sounds
    • Building Four-Sound Words
    • Guess a Word
    • Troll Talk II: Phonemes
  9. Introducing Letters and Spellings
    • Guess Who: Introducing Sounds and Letters
    • Picture Names: Initial Sounds and Letters
    • I'm Thinking of Something: Initial Sounds and Letters
    • Picture Names: Final Sounds and Letters
    • Picture Search: Initial or Final Consonants
    • Introduction to How Words are Spelled: Add a Letter
    • Swap a Letter
    • Sounding Words
  10. Assessing Phonological Awareness
    • The Assessment Test
    • Materials
    • The Testing Procedure
    • Detecting Rhymes - Description, Administration & Scoring
    • Counting Syllables - Description, Administration & Scoring
    • Matching Initial Sounds - Description, Administration & Scoring
    • Counting Phonemes - Description, Administration & Scoring
    • Comparing Word Lengths - Description, Administration & Scoring
    • Representing Phonemes with Letters - Description, Administration & Scoring
    • Interpreting the Results

Appendices

  • Appendix A: Phonetic Symbols and Classifications of American English Consonants and Vowels
  • Appendix B: Suggested Kindergarten Schedule
  • Appendix C: Suggested First-Grade Schedule
  • Appendix D: Accompanying Materials and Resources
  • Appendix E: Advanced Language Games
  • Appendix F: Annotated Bibliography of Rhyming Stories
  • Appendix G: Poems, Fingerplays, Jingles, and Chants

Index

"This is the curriculum in phonemic awareness that many teachers have been waiting for."
- Joseph K. Torgesen, Ph.D.

"This curriculum is an example of what we desperately need more of: research-based theory translated into field-tested materials that teachers can confidently and successfully use in the classroom.'' - American EducatorThis curriculum is an example of what we desperately need more of: research-based theory translated into field-tested materials that teachers can confidently and successfully use in the classroom."
- American Educator

"The directions are easy to understand and the lessons follow a developmental sequence beginning with the easiest and most basic activities. . . . This book could be used with any reading program. . . . The games are user-friendly and do not require a large amount of preparation time. . . . Excellent resource book."
- Utah State Textbook Commission Evaluation

"[The] activities reinforce the phonological awareness skills that are crucial for young children to develop the foundation required for becoming a successful reader."
- Cena Holifield, Academic Language Therapist, Hattiesburg, Mississippi