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Students who may be struggling with reading because of a reading disability still need support from their teacher. Teachers need to help motivate students who may be struggling as readers so that they don't disengage from the reading lessons, feel bad about themselves, and give up on their reading skills. Students who have difficulty reading have lower self-esteem, so it is important for teachers to help remind them of all of their other strengths in and out of the classroom.

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Teach individual students struggling with a specific concept

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Teach individual students struggling with a specific concept

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At times, students need more than whole group lessons on a certain concept that they're struggling with and need more time with the concept and close attention from the teacher.

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Teachers can have whole group lessons that work with phonological awareness skills especially at a younger age (kindergarten, first grade, and second grade). These lessons could be short ones about rhyming, calling out the first sound in a word, breaking words apart, etc. Reading books with large print so that students can see you read things through and what strategies to use.

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https://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonologicalphonemic

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Having all of the foundational skills of understanding the parts of the English language is necessary into being able to become a strong reader.
According to Readingrockets.org, students who struggle with these phonological awareness skills and also specifically phonemic awareness skills indicate that they will struggle with reading compared to their peers.
Anything to avoid students struggling with reading early on is important so that they don't already feel unconfident in such a vital skill.

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Is one of the skills needed in order to develop reading skills.
Phonemic Awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate words into the smallest unit of the word (phonemes).
-There are 44 phonemes in the English language
-If students struggle with this skill, they may have difficulty moving on to being able to read

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Is the overarching set of skills for the foundation to develop reading skills.
These skills include being able to manipulate parts of a word, count syllables, and navigate onsets and rimes.
-A student with phonological awareness early on is able to hear syllable groupings in words.
-Later on, students should be able to move onto rhyming words.
If a student doesn't have an understanding of how speech sounds works, then that student would have difficulty understanding how to read.

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What can teachers do to promote phonemic awareness in their classes?

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What can teachers do to promote phonemic awareness in their classes?

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What are Phonemic Awareness and Phonics? What’s the difference?

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What are Phonemic Awareness and Phonics? What’s the difference?