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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!

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5 Tips for Teaching Phonemic Awareness // Science of Reading Phonemic Awareness Ideas!

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Have students identify the first, middle, or last sound in words. For example, ask 'What's the first sound in 'cat'?' Differentiation: Use picture cards for visual learners or hand gestures for kinesthetic learners.

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Play a rhyming game where students create a chain of rhyming words. Differentiation: For students with hearing impairments, incorporate visual cues or sign language to reinforce sound patterns.

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Encourage families to play 'I Spy' with sounds. For example, 'I spy something that starts with the /b/ sound.' This game helps children focus on individual sounds in words.

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Reading Rockets offers a wealth of information and activities for developing phonemic awareness. Their resources are research-based and easy for parents to use at home.

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Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds in language. It's all about connecting the sounds of spoken language with the letters of written language.

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Use magnetic letters and picture cards. Students match letters to pictures based on beginning sounds. Differentiation: For students with visual impairments, use textured letters and objects instead of pictures.

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Use letter tiles to build simple words. Start with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. Differentiation: For advanced learners, include blends and digraphs. For struggling learners, start with two-letter words.

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Encourage families to go on a 'letter hunt' in their home, looking for objects that start with a specific letter sound. This reinforces letter-sound connections in a fun, interactive way.

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Starfall.com offers free phonics activities and games. It's an excellent resource for parents to use at home to reinforce phonics skills in a fun, interactive way.

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Please see Starfall's how-to-teach-reading page, Learn to Read with Phonics, Fluency, and Comprehension, and print the Free Phonics Printouts for children. Starfall™ books, games, movies, and songs follow a research-based method of systematic phonics starting with consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. Emergent readers gain confidence as they progress to long vowels and other letter-sound relationships such as digraphs.

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Learn to Read with Phonics | Starfall Education

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Starfall's movies, games, and ebooks create an environment where children have fun as they learn to read. We use a proven sequential phonics method.

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Vocabulary refers to the words we must understand to communicate effectively. A robust vocabulary is crucial for reading comprehension and overall academic success.

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Introduce a new word each day, discuss its meaning, and encourage students to use it. Differentiation: For ELL students, include visual aids and translations. For advanced learners, explore synonyms and antonyms.

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Act out vocabulary words for students to guess. Differentiation: For students with mobility issues, they can describe the word instead of acting it out. Use simpler words for struggling learners.

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Encourage families to create a 'word jar' at home. Family members can add new words they encounter, and discuss a word from the jar each day at dinner time.

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Vocabulary.com offers adaptive vocabulary learning games and activities. It's a great tool for parents to help their children expand their vocabulary in an engaging way.

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Find out how strong your vocabulary is and learn new words at Vocabulary.com.

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Vocabulary.com helps you learn new words, play games that improve your vocabulary, and explore language.

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Fluency is the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. It's the bridge between word recognition and comprehension.

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Teaching reading fluency - Tim Rasinski - IRC22

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Have students read the same short passage multiple times, focusing on speed and expression. Differentiation: For struggling readers, use shorter texts. For advanced readers, incorporate more challenging vocabulary.

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Assign parts of a story for students to read aloud dramatically. Differentiation: For shy students, allow them to read with a partner. For advanced readers, let them write their own scripts.

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Encourage parents to read a sentence aloud, then have their child repeat it, mimicking their expression. This helps develop fluency and expression in reading.

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ReadWorks.org provides a vast collection of reading passages at various levels, perfect for fluency practice. It's free and easy for parents to use at home.

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand its meaning, and integrate it with what the reader already knows. It's the ultimate goal of reading!

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After reading a story, have students fill out a story map identifying characters, setting, problem, and solution. Differentiation: Use pictures for visual learners, or allow verbal responses for students struggling with writing.

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While reading, pause to ask questions about the author's choices and intentions. Differentiation: For ELL students, provide sentence starters. For advanced learners, encourage deeper, inferential questions.

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At-Home Activity: Dinner Table Book Club

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At-Home Activity: Dinner Table Book Club

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Encourage families to discuss books during meal times. Parents can ask questions about characters, plot, and predictions to promote comprehension skills.

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CommonLit.org offers free reading passages with accompanying comprehension questions. It's an excellent resource for parents to support reading comprehension at home.

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