In the article by Yopp & Yopp, phonemic awareness is a somewhat misunderstood concept. Many people confuse the term phonemic with auditory discrimination.
Phonemic awareness: awareness tat the speech stream consists of a sequence of sounds.
So now the question remains, how do you translate this difference into the classroom?
1. Create/ Incorporate activities that are child appropriate:
- songs, chants, word sound games, storytelling, rhymes and riddles
- create posters that focus on a holiday or theme.
"I Have, Who Has" is a game that will help reinforce the ability to
identify phonemes in a word. Students love to play this game and are
excited when it is used in small and/or whole group settings. This
game is a "chain reaction" activity for the kids, with this set focusing
on segmenting two, three, and four phoneme words.
Now this woman, I feel, is a little obnoxious but her game does well with both letters and the sounds they make. According to Yopp & Yopp, a game needs to be playful, engaging, delilberate, and purposeful. I think that this game could even be broadened as the lesson continues and the students learn more. Maybe have bean bags with prefixes and affixes to work on those tricky pronunciations.
All in all, the understanding of what phonemic awareness is will help students progress into metalinguistic awareness and alphabetic orthography.
Did you find her game stimulating? Was it too focused on smaller classrooms?
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