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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. It's a crucial foundation for reading success. For example, students should be able to recognize that the word 'cat' has three distinct sounds: /c/ /a/ /t/.

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1. Sound Boxing: Draw boxes for each sound in a word and have students move manipulatives into each box as they segment the sounds.
2. Sound Deletion: Remove sounds from words (e.g., 'what's 'smile' without /s/?')
3. Sound Blending Games: Robot Talk - say words sound by sound and have students blend them together.

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5 Phonological Awareness Activities I Love for Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade!

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Regular assessment of phonemic awareness skills is essential. I use DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) and informal assessments like having students identify rhyming words or segment sounds in simple words. Keep running records to track progress!

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Phonics is the relationship between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes). It's how we teach students to connect the sounds they hear in spoken language to the letters they see in written language. This is essential for both reading and spelling.

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Engage multiple senses in phonics instruction:
- Sand writing for letter formation
- Letter tiles for word building
- Movement activities for sound-symbol connections
- Sound walls with pictures and actions
Make it fun and interactive!

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Reading fluency consists of three key elements:
1. Accuracy: Reading words correctly
2. Rate: Reading at an appropriate speed
3. Prosody: Reading with expression and proper phrasing
All three components are necessary for comprehension.

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Track fluency development using:
- Timed readings with tracking
- Running records
- Fluency rubrics
- Recording samples throughout the year
Set individual goals with students and celebrate progress!

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Early Reading Assessment: A Guiding Tool for Instruction

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How do you choose the best method for measuring reading progress? This brief article describes which assessments to use for different reading skills so that you can make sure all students are making progress towards becoming readers!

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"Slap the letter sounds" is a wonderful phonics activity that also helps develop a students fine motor skills at the same time.

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Alphabet Scavenger Hunt & Grocery Store Literacy

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Alphabet Scavenger Hunt & Grocery Store Literacy

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These two at-home activities are great ways to enhance a student's phonics skills at home.

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Syllable awareness—stomp and say

Stomp and Say helps students practice segmenting and counting syllables in words. Use hands to “stomp” each syllable of a word. Kids listen, watch, and count the stomps. Then have kids do it with you. And last, have kids do it themselves.

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Roll and Read

Students will roll a die. They will go to the corresponding row and read the letters or words as fast as they can.

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Listen every day: Once you’ve found a collection of books that your child can read easily, listen to your child read every day.

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Understanding Phonics and Fluency in Reading

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In this video, I discuss the concepts of New Mic Awareness, phonics, and fluency in reading. I explain how phonics focuses on letters, sounds, and syllables, while fluency is about reading accurately and expressively. It's crucial for us to understand these elements to enhance our teaching methods. I encourage you to reflect on how we can apply these concepts in our classrooms.

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Staake, J. (2020, August 3). 20 fun phonics activities and games for early readers. We Are Teachers. https://www.weareteachers.com/phonics-activities/

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Vocabulary is best explained by saying that this is the words that we both understand and recognize visually, as well as those that we utilize verbally.

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Start at the root

Start this activity with a root word, such as push. Have your students come up with words they know that contain that word, such as: pushing, pushed, pushover, push-up, etc. Have a class discussion about all these words and how some have some shared meaning related to the word push.

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Use these two at-home vocabulary activities to expand your child's vocabulary:

1. Word Charades

Act out a word and have your child guess what it could be. Expand on this by ensuring they understand the meaning of the word.

2. Vocabulary Bingo

Create a bingo card with different words.

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The word comprehension's definition is "the action or capability of understanding something".

In regard to literacy, it means that we are able to read a passage or text, process it, and understand any meaning behind it.

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ABC Activity

After reading a story or passage, ask your students to come up with a word that is related to the book, and to write a sentence using that word, one for each letter of the alphabet!

For example:

Charlotte's Web:

A - Fern's brother Avery climbed into a crate and pretended to be a pig.

B - Mrs. Zuckerman thinks Wilbur should have a buttermilk bath before the fair.

C - Charlotte the spider befriends Wilbur and helps save his life.