Movin’ &
Groovin’ with
Phonemic
Awareness and
Phonics
Lori Elliott
SDE
tosaelliott@gmail.com
Hang Those Bottoms Down!
Hang those bottoms down, down
Hang those bottoms down
Some letters stand tall
Some sit on the wall
Some hang their bottoms down, down
Phonics or Phonemic
Awareness
PHONICS
• Visual
• Letters and Letter
Names
• Rule Based
• Print Centered
• Spelling to Sound
System
PHONEMIC
AWARENESS
• Auditory
• Speech Based
• Speech Sounds
have letters
• Phoneme
Discrimination
Phonemic Awareness
• Phonemic Awareness is not knowing
which letter makes which sound.
That is phonics. Phonemic Awareness
is the awareness that words are
composed of sounds, and is an
important precursor to learning to
read. ( Yopp, 1992).
Kids with Phonemic
Awareness
• When words start alike
• When words rhyme
• When words are long words or short
words
• If words have “lots of letters” or just
a few
• How to stretch letter sounds
• How to play with words
Development of Phonemic
Awareness
• Result of exposure
to written and oral
language.
• Rhyme
• Tongue Twisters
• Silly Games with
Words
• Clapping Syllables
• Singing
Assessment
• Levels of Phonemic Awareness
• Developmental Spelling Test
Phonemic Awareness
Activities
• Syllables
• Back to Back
• Simon Says
• Rubber Band Stretch
• Sing Old Favorites with New Sounds
• Sound & Sketch/ Rhyme & Sketch
Online Helps
• http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/
elementary/palmasola/rcompindex1.
htm
http://teacher.scholastic.co
m/activities/bll/index.htm
Let’s sort some words.
fluency
writing
process
food
poetry
shopping
strategies
books
journals
friends
What is a word sort?
• A strategy for understanding words and
word parts. Students learn by doing.
Students analyze a set of word cards
for similarities. They sort the words
into categories.
Why use word sorts?
• Spelling
• Content
• Build background knowledge
• Review
• Assessment
• Practice
• Reading/Fluency
Picture Sorts
S
B
When and Why?
• Work on
beginning or
ending sounds.
Concept Sorts
Clothes
Toys
Why and How
• Use when teaching
content.
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
Anne Rockwell
Brian P. Cleary
Rhyming Picture Sort
Vowel Picture Sort
Teacher Directed Sorts
• Teachers define the categories and
model sorting. The teacher shares with
students the key word or word part
students should use in the sorting.
Beginner Level :
Sort for Word Families
cat
man
can
rat
fan
hat
pan
sat
pat
that
tan
bat
van
mat
than
fat
ran
Student Centered Sort:
Open Sort
• Students examine all the words in the
sort and decide the categories for
sorting the words. They sort the words
based on this prediction.
Student Centered Sort
web
queen
team
seat
bed
seen
yes
jeep
read
meal
tree
leg
treat
bell
sheep
jet
cream
seed
eat
been
feel
Guess My Category
• The teacher shows two or three pictures or
words into each group. Then as picture cards
or word cards are selected the students
guess which category it would fit. This
strategy is used to explore content
vocabulary. Students can continue this
strategy by creating their own categories
based on words given.
Try this one:
Tree
Presents
Candy cane
Basket
Church
Eggs
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/
books/content/wordsort/
Poem of the Week
• Builds fluency
• Work on Phonics and Phonemic
Awareness
• Connects to themes or units of study
• Encourages Writing Poetry
Morning Message
Morning Message
• K-2 Use a regular
and predictable
format.
• Include a place for
students to interact
with the message.
1/14/07
Good Morning, Pioneers!
Last week we began our Pioneer family journeys. The Smith family
definitely had a difficult time. Sorry to hear about your cow.
While making decisions on the trail, you’ve had to learn to problem
solve to make it all the way to Oregon. What has been your most
challenging decision so far?
Be ready to tell why this decision was hard.
List one important supply your Pioneer family took with you on
your journey:
Morning Message Through
the Week
• Marvelous Monday
• Tangled Tuesday
• Wacky Wednesday
• Thinking Thursday
• Fabulous Friday
Silly Songs
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R-read/Re-sing over and over
Listen for rhyming words
Look for rhyming words
Categorize words by sound or pattern
Listen for beginning sounds
Look for words with matching beginning sound
Look for word chunks or word families
Add motions to the song
Act out the song
Draw or write in response to the song
Make class books with drawings and writings
Perform for others
Clap syllables of words in the song
Make copies to send home to read/sing with parents
Keep copies on cardstock and place in plastic sleeves for book
bins
I wish I Were..
I wish I was a little caterpillar
I wish I was a little caterpillar
I’d go munchy munchy munchy
Into everybody’s lunchy
I wish I was a little caterpillar
• I wish I was a little
mosquito
I wish I was a little
mosquito
I’d go bitey bitey bitey
Under every ladie’s
nighty
Oh I wish I was a little
mosquito
• I wish I was a little
motorcar
I wish I was a little
motorcar
I’d go beepy beepy
beepy As I drove right
down your streety
I wish I was a little
motorcar
The Wishy-Washy
Washerwoman
In the deep dark jungle
where nobody goes
There’s a wishy-washy
washerwoman
washing her clothes
She goes “Ooh, ahh,
ooh, ahh,
Ooh ahh ahh and a
ringy-ding-ding!”
Black Socks
Black socks, they never get dirty,
The longer I wear them, the stronger
they get!
Sometimes I think I should wash
them,
But something inside me keeps saying
, “Not yet! Not yet! Not Yet!
Song Sites
• http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/subject.ht
ml
• http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/sit
e/camp-activities/camp-songs.html
• http://www.woodgsc.org/forms/Songbook
.pdf
• Google camp songs, silly songs or Scout songs