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| What | Phonological Awareness is an umbrella term that includes phonemic awareness. It includes skills such as breaking sentences into words, breaking words into syllables, recognizing and producing rhymes, as well as breaking words into phonemes (individual sounds). Phonemic Awareness is the understanding that spoken language is composed of phonemes or speech sounds. It involves the ability to blend, segment, and manipulate phonemes in spoken words. Click here for more information Introduction to Heggerty Phonemic Awareness |
| Why | Phonologicial Awareness is the foundation of good reading and is necessary for learning to read any alphabetic writing system. "Phonological Awareness instruction will accelerate the reading growth of all children, and it appears to be vital in order for at least 20 percent of children to acquire useful reading skills." (Torgeson & Mathes, 1998). Additionally, The National Reading Panel reported that "Teaching children to manipulate phonemes in words was highly effective under a variety of teaching conditions with a variety of learners across a range of grade and age levels and that teaching phonemic awareness to children significantly improves their reading more than instruction that lacks any attention to PA." Click here for more information |
| How | In grades K-2, PA should be explicitly taught and practiced during tier 1 everyday for at least 10-15 minutes per day. An additional 10-15 minutes per day, 3-4 days per week should be given to tier 2 & 3. In grades 3-6, PA may only be necessary for students who are not reading at grade level. For students who need further instruction, provide 10-15 minutes per day, 3-4 days per week. |
| Instruct | |
| Classroom Strategies | PA Strategies and WHEN to use them Class Cheers! Sound Wall Key Ideas |
| Pre-K | Heggerty Sample Lessons |
| Kindergarten | Heggerty Alignment to Standards Heggerty Sample Lessons |
| Primary | Heggerty Alignment to Standards Heggerty Sample Lessons |
| Heggerty Flashcards | Lowercase Letters Uppercase Letters Blends & Digraphs Prefix & Inflectional Endings R-Controlled & Advanced Vowels Vowel Team |
| Heggerty Videos | Heggerty in Jordan School District Introduction to Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Hand Motion Video Playlist Hand Motion Guide Flashcard Sounds Example Video Sample Lesson (teacher in JSD) |
| Assess | |
| Acadience Progress Monitoring | Progress Monitoring Login First Sound Fluency (FSF) Scoring Booklet Phoneme Segmentation (PSF) Scoring Booklet |
| 95% Group |
PASI Flowchart PASI Diagnostic |
| Journeys | Diagnostic Assessment Progress Monitoring |
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| 95% Group Intervention | Phonological Awareness Continuum Commonly Taught Phonological Awareness Skills Tips for Explicitly Teaching Phonological Awareness FCRR Aligned Phonological Awareness Activities |
| Other Interventions | Explicit Small-Group Lesson Plan Phonological Awareness Interventions by Skill Phonemic Awareness Interventions by Skill |
| Extension | Books/Rhymes to Practice Phonological Awareness Transition Games Websites At-Home Activity |