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Phonemic awareness

- is a specific subset of phonological awareness that focuses on the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds, known as phonemes, in spoken words. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a language that distinguish one word from another. For example, the word "cat" consists of three phonemes: /c/ /a/ /t/

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FastTrack Phonics - Success for All Foundation

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FASTTRACK PHONICS 2ND EDITION Fast and Fun Mastery of Phonemic Awareness and Phonics for Grades 1 and 2 Each day includes instruction that develops phonics and phonemic-awareness skills through fun, fast-paced, and systematic FastTrack lessons. Colorful mnemonic picture cards, Alphie and Cami puppets, rhymes, chants, media, and games bring the lessons to life. The many […]

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Basics: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

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Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of individual speech sounds, or phonemes. A child's skill in phonological and phonemic awareness is a good predictor of later reading success or difficulty.

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Phonemic Awareness | U F Literacy Institute

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It is a method for teaching children how to read and write by teaching them the relationship between letters and sounds in written language

•Phoneme: smallest unit of speech sound

•Grapheme: represents a phoneme

•Orthography: a writing system for representing language

-Consonant Digraphs: one grapheme comprised of two letters that together represent one phoneme (before OR after the vowel sound in a syllable).

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A method for teaching children the relationship between spoken sounds and written letters so they can learn to decode and encode

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Kindergarten and First Grade Student Center Activities Phonological Awareness | Phonics | Fluency | Vocabulary | Comprehension

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The ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with proper expression.This means reading smoothly and effortlessly as if speaking naturally, incorporating appropriate pace, intonation, and phrasing to convey the meaning of the text.

-Accuracy (reading words correctly)

-Rate (reading at an appropriate speed)

-Prosody (using expression and intonation).

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Explore reading basics as well as the key role of background knowledge and motivation in becoming a lifelong reader and learner. Watch our PBS Launching Young Readers series and try our self-paced Reading 101 course to deepen your understanding.

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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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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Vocabulary is the body of words students must know to communicate effectively. It includes words students hear, speak, read, and write. A strong vocabulary improves comprehension. Its important for students to know the meaning of words to understand what they read. It also supports writing, speaking, and overall language development.

Expressive Vocabulary:

*Any language used to convey thinking via speaking or writing.

Receptive Vocabulary:

*The ability to process language received via reading or listening.

Vocabulary Breadth: Denotes the number of words a learner recognizes or knows.

Vocabulary Depth: Measure of how well an individual knows a word.

Vocabulary Fluency:Refers to the rate at which the individual gains access to the meaning of the word.

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The Word Up Project is an award-winning vocabulary and reading program, a comprehensive resource for teaching Tier 2 words. Word Up is a research-based, standards-aligned resource that is proven to raise scores on state reading tests.

Read on to find subject-wide lesson plans, implementation suggestions and and mini games and then experience a Word Up video.

Subject-Wide Lesson Plans

Context Clues
Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of words in Word Up songs, building this important skill for reading comprehension.

Connect to Other Language Arts Topics You can use Word Up songs to teach other language arts topics, including idioms, literary analysis, reading/oral comprehension and grammar.

Implementation Suggestions

Word Up Schedule
The exercises and sections within each Word Up unit can be assigned flexibly and accommodate any schedule. Use them as homework, group work, independent practice or as components of an after-school program. See a sample schedule for grades 2-5 here and a sample schedule for grades 6-8 here.

Using the Assessments
Each unit of Word Up includes a quiz to assess student mastery of the vocabulary words. You can find it by clicking on Quiz in the left-side menu. In addition, each grade level includes a pre-assessment and post-assessment. At the end of the unit, measure vocabulary growth by comparing results on the pre- and post- assessments. Find the pre- and post-assessments for each Word Up grade level here.

If you aren't sure which Word Up level is best for your students, use our diagnostic test to determine the appropriate grade level.

Defining the Words
Find the words covered in the song in the topic description of the Teacher's Guide. You can choose to explicitly pre-teach the vocabulary words in the song or review them after the song. The Lyric Notes have definitions, sample sentences and photographs for each word. Instead of just reading through the definitions, try these methods for fun and effective definition sharing.

Reviewing the Words
It's helpful to watch the video more than once with students. After watching the video twice, go through the Quick Review and interactive Fill in the Blank features with your class. The Quick Review for these videos addresses basic story comprehension as well as word meanings. For the Fill in the Blank, students must remember the vocabulary words specifically. If your students need extra help, you can give students two word options for each blank or create a word bank.

Worksheet Sequence
Give students more practice with the words by following the exercise sequence. This sequence will supplement the Quick Review and mini games to provide additional exposure to word usage and meaning. It is not necessary to include all suggestions; instead, choose the ones that you think will work best for your students. See the exercise sequence for elementary grades ( Word Up Turquoise, Red, Orange and Indigo) and the exercise sequence for middle grades ( Word Up Green, Yellow and Blue).

Using the Extension Questions
Each Word Up has writing questions that test knowledge of words and allow students to practice using the vocabulary words in new contexts. See the list of questions for all levels here.

Word Rep
Increase student engagement and excitement by making each student a word rep. Each student will be responsible for one word per unit and will be the class expert on that word during the unit. Learn more about how to get your students repping words.

Word Wizard
Students will be surprised by how often they see their Word Up vocabulary words in the real world. Isabel Beck, an expert on direct vocabulary instruction, created an ongoing game called Word Wizard in which students can earn credit on unit tests for using vocabulary words in their speech and writing or for bringing in examples of the word from the real world. Learn how to set up Word Wizard here.

Mini Games

Enhance students' vocabulary comprehension and spice up your lesson with mini games! These games are intentionally designed to require minimal preparation and basic rules so that you can fill those remaining minutes before the bell or divide up a long lesson with a quick, energetic break. The games can be used to review the current unit's words and older ones, and they serve as an excellent way to check for understanding. These games can also be expanded for longer play and review, which may be especially useful in after-school and summer-school sessions. Get playing!

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Explore guidelines, strategies and suggestions for implementing Flocabulary’s Word Up Project to enhance vocabulary learning.

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Comprehension is the ability to understand and make meaning from what is read. It involves thinking about the text, connecting it to prior knowledge, asking questions, and making inferences. Without comprehension, reading is just word calling. Student would have no idea what any text means.

Narrative text:

*Refers to text which communicates a series of events or follows a general "story-like" structure.

Expository text:

*Refers to text which are nonfiction and provide facts or information about a topic.

Argumentative text:

*Refers to text which seeks to illustrate a well-formed point by communicating evidence towards a cause for an intended audience.

Persuasive text:

*Refers to text which seeks to persuade an intended audience to adopt a particular viewpoint or opinion.

Opinion text:

*Refers to text which seeks to communicate an opinion about a given topic to an intended audience.

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Into the Book: A Website to Help Support Teaching Reading Strategies

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A collaborative blog that shares teaching ideas and resources geared to third grade teachers and students.

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The Into the Book website will be retired on December 31st, 2023. Content will not be available after this date.

Student activities now available in English and Spanish!

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs.

Please choose a language.

(Bilingual offers both English and Spanish texts, which you can switch between during each activity.)

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Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve elementary students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. For Grades 2-5.

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Search an online dictionary written specifically for young students. Kid-friendly meanings from the reference experts at Merriam-Webster help students build and master vocabulary.

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Find Definitions Written for Kids | Merriam-Webster Student Dictionary

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Kid-friendly meanings from the reference experts at Merriam-Webster help students build and master vocabulary.

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Sound Burst is a fun way for children to experiment with sound and art.

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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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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Practice Math and ELA in your Freckle account and earn coins for the piggy store.