Phonemic+Awareness

= **Phonemic Awareness** =

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[] || K-3 || This site contains 5 different assessments that evaluate syllable awareness, syllable rhyming, phonemic isolation awareness, phonemic blending awareness, and phonemic segmentation. || These assessments are given as a whole group. Scoring guidelines and chart are included. || [|Syllable Study] || K-2 || Classroom Syllable Graph [|Name Graph] || This activity helps students understand syllables by graphing how many syllables each student has in thier name || The site features a program you can buy (//Discovery Intensive Phonics// for younger students and //Reading Horizons// for older students) to use with students in your classroom. || The free assessment is to be done with the student sitting at the computer and the teacher uses the keyboard to determine if the student answered the question correctly. || This site has tons of activities for improving phonemic awareness. It gives a description of each activity and all the reproducibles needed. || Very easy assessment to give and helps determine students ability to rhyme and isolate and blend sounds. || Barbret || [] || K-5 || Game: Students jump for each syllable heard for Syllable Segmenting.
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 * Rebecca Setera || http://www.bogglesworldesl.com/elkonin_boxes.htm || K-2 || Elkonin Boxes || Elkonin boxes can be used to teach phonemic awareness by having students listen for individual sounds and marking where they hear them in the boxes. ||
 * Daniel Brant || Phonemic Awareness Assessments
 * Jacqueline Sosin || [|www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f] || K-2 || This website has games and activities that support letter sound relationships and letter blends. There are also games to support sight word recognition. || Fun and interactive! Sound included. ||
 * Marissa Markey || Phonemic Awareness strategy
 * Melissa Jasmund || Phonemic Awareness Online Game || K-2 || http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ears.html || This game practices with auditory discrimination. In this game, students have to listen to and find the missing letter. ||   ||
 * Melissa Jasmund || Phonemic Awareness Online Game || K-2 || @http://professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/chickenCoop.html || This phonemic awareness game provides practice with beginning sounds. ||  ||
 * Jenni Brown || [] || K-3 || Rhyme Away Story || This whole group activity requires the students to come up with the rhyming word present in the picture displayed on the board. ||
 * Melissa Jasmund || Phonemic Awareness Assessment:@http://athome.readinghorizons.com/assessments/phom-swf.aspx || K-3 || This is a free assessment you can give on phonemic awareness online.
 * Andrea Ursitti || [] || K-3 || This site offers great assessments and activities. One way to help raise phonological awareness is to incorporate games that allow students to build upon their phonological skills. This can be done using technology and integrating other hands on engaging activities. || A great way to work on these skills is in small groups and creating game like activities in small groups can be extremely beneficial. ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [[file:PA assessment.doc]] || K || This form provides teachers with a set-by-step Phonemic Awareness Assessment of rhyminig words, isolated initial consonants, isolate ending consonants, blend onsets and rimes, and blend seperately spoken phonemes. || A great resource because it provides teachers with the exact words and steps. ||
 * Sarah Kenyon || [] || K || Florida Center for Reading Research[]
 * Chrystal Watkins || http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/pa/pa_assess.php || K-1 || Phonemic Awareness skills can be assessed using standardized measures. The [|Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)] assessment system provides two measures that can be used to assess phonemic segmentation skills, [|Initial Sounds Fluency (ISF)] and [|Phonemic Segmentation Fluency (PSF)]. || Phonemic awareness should be assessed from the beginning of kindergarten through the spring of first grade. All students should be assessed a minimum of three times per year to be sure adequate progress toward end of year goals is made. ||
 * Emily

Flash Cards: For Rhyme Identification. Use picture cards for very young and match the cards that rhyme.

Games and flash cards are great strategies to help students practice phonemic skills. || This link is called Cool Tools and it is 117 pages long. It includes an in depth assessment of phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary in context. Can be used for upper elementary too. ||