Learning To Read

1. Learning To Read Jose F. Lopez March 27, 2006

2. Phonemic Awareness • Ability to manipulate phonemes in spoken words • Enables children to use sound symbol correspondences to read and write • Begins at an early age (K-2) • Foundation for phonics • 44 phonemes in English Language

3. Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Lessons • Phonemic Awareness Lessons • Phonics Lessons

4. Types of Phonemic Awareness Tasks • Phoneme Deletion • Phoneme Addition • Phoneme Substitution • Phoneme Segmentation • Syllable Clapping

5. How It Can Be Taught? • Language rich environments (singing songs, playing with words, chanting rhymes, listening to others read word play books) • Play games or activities to understand speech is composed of sounds.

6. Assessing Phonemic Awareness • Yopp-Singer (Segmentation) Elkonin Boxes • Rosner (Deletion)

7. Phonics • Phonemic awareness and written aspects of language (complete by third grade) • Emphasis on spelling patterns • Vowels short or long (name) • Blends, digraphs (e.g. , ch and sh), Rimes (word families) at and ike, and Rhymes.

8. Phonics Generalizations • Qu • CVCe • CVC • CV • R Controlled • Kn and wr • Letter C- /s/ or /k/ • Letter G- /g/ or /j/

9. Teaching Phonics Skills • Whole- Part- Whole • Read the literature • Teach the skill • Allow students to apply the skill taught