1. Phonemic Awareness

2.  Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to segment
and manipulate the sounds of oral language.
 It is not the same as phonics, which involves
knowing how written letters relate to spoken sounds.
 Research has shown that a child’s awareness of the
sounds of spoken words is a strong predictor of his
or her later success in learning to read
 -International Reading Association

3. 7 Dimensions of Phonemic Awareness
1. The ability to hear syllables within a word
2. The ability to to hear initial sounds or recognize alliteration ( Sally
Sells Seashells by the sea shore)
3. The ability to distinguish rime and rhyme(Rime: hat cat sat;
Rhyme: great late bait)
4. The ability to distinguish oddity (man money cat)
5. The ability to blend sounds orally to make a word (/a/ +/t/=at)
6. The ability to segment words orally (at=/a/+/t/)
7. The ability to manipulate sounds orally to create new words
(Plug-/g/=Plu; Plu+/m/=Plum)
-Devries

4. Scaffolding
 By choosing books with
alliteration, assonance, rhyme, repe
tition, onomatopoeia, and nonsense
words educators help new
readers, “develop an ear for the
sounds within words” (Devries
2004).
 Read aloud (model good
reading, use expression)
 Use Gestures (clap, tap, snap
syllable and rhyme)
 Vary reading materials (tongue
twisters, nursery
rhymes, poems, songs and music)
 Use “concrete cues”-manipulatives
(wicklund 2004)

5. Activities
 Jump Rope Jingles
 Chopping game
 Match Game

6. ISEL
 Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy
 Assesses phonemic awareness, letter
recognition, and knowledge of letter sounds
 Given three times a year
 On Target vs On Watch

7. Literature to support Phonemic Awareness

8. References
 DeVries, B. A. (2011). Phonemic Awareness. Literacy assessment
and intervention for the elementary classroom (pp. 76-100).
Scottsdale, Ariz.: Holcomb Hathaway Publishers.
 International Reading Association. (2012). Phonemic Awareness .
Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading. Retrieved April
10, 2012, fromhttp://reading.org/General/AboutIRA/PositionState
ments/PhonemicAwarenessPosition.aspx
 Wicklund, B. (2004). Using scaffolding to teach
phonological/phonemic awareness skills to english language
learners Hamline University | Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hamline
University | Saint Paul, Minnesota. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from
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