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Resources: Phonemic Awareness - General
| Beginning Reading And Phonological Awareness For Students With Learning Disabilities | Provides suggestions for teaching phonological awareness. Includes strategies for helping children with special needs. |
| How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities for Collaborative Classrooms |
A research-based article that presents a set of developmental phoneme awareness training activities (with diagrams and tables for emphasis) that the special educator can integrate collaboratively into existing kindergarten and first-grade reading programs. |
| In the Classroom | Reading activities covering phoneme segmentations, blending phonemes, and rhyming names. |
| Phonemic Awareness | Articles that explain what phonemic awareness is and how to assess it. |
| Phonemic Awareness Activities | Classroom activities that focus on rhyming and alliteration. |
| Phonemic Awareness Approach to Reading [PDF] | Five preschool and kindergarten activities covering the following: listening/discrimination, word isolation, rhyming, syllabication, and phonemic isolation. |
| Phonemic Awareness in Beginning Reading | A phonemic awareness tutorial. |
| Phonemic Awareness: An Important Early Step in Learning to Read | This digest discusses the concept of the awareness that spoken language is made up of discrete sounds, why this concept is so important to early childhood educators, its relation to the debate on the best type of reading instruction, and finally, teaching methods that may help children in developing such an awareness. |
| Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading: Summary of a position statement of the International Reading Association. | The International Reading Association seeks to clarify some of the issues as they relate to research, policy and practice. The full position paper is in PDF format, and linked from the end of the article. |
| Professional Workshops PreK-1: Phonemic Awareness | This online workshop defines phonemic awareness and provides resources for classroom instruction. |
| Rhyme Time | A phonemic awareness bingo game. |
| A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy | Downloadable resources designed especially for Head Start teachers; includes instructions for fostering early literacy and reproducible classroom materials. |
Read*Write*Think contains a wealth of reading and writing lessons. It is a collaborative effort between the International Reading Association, NCTE, and Marco Polo.
Bank Street's Guide to Literacy for Volunteers and Tutors , Bank Street College of Education provides reading tutors with a variety of information ranging from background information on literacy and early reading, sample lesson plans, activities, and information on other literacy and reading resources.
Instructional Resources Database: Instructional Activities from SEDL is a search tool for locating instructional activities.
