1. Literacy Night PHENOMENAL Time With PHONEMIC AWARENSS

2. What is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemic Awareness is not Phonics.
Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear the individual phonemes (sounds) in spoken words.
Phonological Awareness is the ability to hear syllables, rhymes, and individual sounds.
Phonemic Awareness is part of Phonological Awareness.

3. Importance of Phonemic Awareness
Children who cannot hear and work with the phonemes of spoken words will have a difficult time learning how to relate these phonemes to a letter in the alphabet, or all of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, such as f, ph, and gh when they see them in written words.

4. Phonemic Awareness Activities
Early readers can show they have phonemic awareness in several ways:
Recognizing the first phoneme (sound)in a word- ex. D-og (Use a pocket chart with pictures and letters)
isolating and saying the first or last sound in a word. (Mystery Words- Say three or four words that begin with the same sound- basket, ball, big, boat)
“I Spy Game”- I spy with my little eyes something you are wearing that starts with a /p/ pants, /s/socks

5. Phonemic Awareness Activities
Stretchy names- with a rubber band
Model with a large rubber band how to stretch out a word as the word is said. /mmmm-/aaaa-/nnnn/
Stretch out children’s names by saying name slowly. Then say name quickly by clapping
Song- to teach Phonemic Segmentation
Listen, listen to my word,
Then tell me all the sounds you heard: (race)
/r/ is one sound
/a/ is two
/s/ is last in race it’s true
Thank you for listening to my word and telling all the sounds you heard!

6. Phonemic Awareness Activities
Rhyming-
-Read rhyming books- “Down By the Bay” By Raffi
-Read and discuss beginning sounds in words and rhyming words.
- Rhyming Word Sit Down game - Children walk around in a big circle taking one step each time rhyming words are said by someone. Then the adult says a word that doesn’t rhyme and the children sit down.

7. Phonemic Awareness Activities
Rhyming:
Nursery Rhymes:
Hickory Dickory Dock the mouse ran up the clock.
Authors of Rhyming Books: Dr. Seuss, Bill Martin Jr., Rosemary Wells (Noisy Nora), Audrey Wood ( Silly Sally), Jim Aylesworth, Raffi, and Deborah Guarino ( Is Your Mama a Llama?)

8. THANK YOU
Thank you for coming to Literacy Night. Have a PHENOMENAL time practicing Phonemic Awareness with your child. BOOK FAIR- Please visit the Book Fair on your way out.