https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t en-us 2021-04-22 01:03:49 UTC 2021-04-22 04:24:19 UTC hello@padlet.com mrshillier3 https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445108102 Phonemes are the smallest unit of sound, students begin with learning the individual phonemes and once they have mastered those they can move on to blending phonemes together and then making words out of them (Wierman, M. K., 2018, February 21).
One of the resources that I use in my classroom for Phonemic Awareness is Heggerty's. It is a book with 35 weekly lessons designed to help students understand phonemes and allow them to  learn how to identify individual phonemes in a word as well as learn the middle sound and replace or substitute a different sound to make another word.  
Heggerty's is great at reinforcing what we are trying to teach in Phonemic Awareness because it is literally helping kids develop these skills (Heggerty, 2021).]]> 2021-04-22 01:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445108102 mrshillier3 https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445108704 Now that the students can say the letter sounds, phonics can help the students be able to see a letter or groups of letters and be able to tell what sound or sounds go with each letter or group of letters. Students are able to learn different patterns in the English language to help them tricks to help them read certain words quicker (Wierman, M. K., 2018, February 21).

A strategy for phonics could be alphabet letter matching, having the students match upper case and lower case letters together, being exposed to many different letters over and over again the students are able to get the visual of the letters and then say the sounds that they learned in phonemic awareness (Alphabet Matching, 2020).]]> 2021-04-22 01:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445108704 mrshillier3 https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445109009 When the students understand the sounds that the letters are saying they are able to read the words with a fluid movement rather than having to go through and decode each word by saying its sounds. This is called Fluency (Wierman, M. K., 2018, February 21).

A strategy for fluency could be choral reading, this allows the students to read together and to hear how it should sound fluently. The students are able to hear the teacher read the passage while following along and then the students then read as a class while still tracking (Choral Reading, 2019).]]> 2021-04-22 01:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445109009 mrshillier3 https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445109247 By introducing words called vocabulary words the students are able to learn the meanings of them as well as learn to recognize them in their reading, being able to recognize the vocabulary words as well as know their meaning can help the students better understand the text they are reading (Wierman, M. K., 2018, February 21).

Something I have seen in classrooms and I would like to do in my own class is a word wall, having the high frequency words up on the wall either in the the order that we learn them or by alphabetical order just to have them up and available as a guide. Sometimes students can think oh I have seen this word before where have I seen it... Oh on the word wall and that can just establish a connection for them! ]]> 2021-04-22 01:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445109247 mrshillier3 https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445109660 After the students have learned the letter sounds and are able to read fluently and are able to find vocabulary within the reading the students are then able to comprehend what they are reading. They are able to understand that the dog ran fast and they are able to answer questions about what they read rather than being so focused on seeing a bunch of letters and sayin their sounds (Wierman, M. K., 2018, February 21).

A strategy that I think of when I think comprehension is summarizing, asking a student to tell me about what they just read and listen for key details. Allowing them to tell you about what they read can help you gage the level of understanding or comprehension that they have over the reading. ]]> 2021-04-22 01:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445109660 mrshillier3 https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445122145 Alphabet Matching: Classroom Strategy. Reading Rockets. (2020, October 26). https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/alphabet_matching.

Heggerty. (2021, March 9). https://heggerty.org/.

Choral Reading: Classroom Strategy. Reading Rockets. (2019, December 26). https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/choral_reading.

Wierman, M. K. (2018, February 21). [The Five Pillars of Reading] Breaking Down the Elements of Successful Literacy Instruction. Edmentum Blog. https://blog.edmentum.com/five-pillars-reading-breaking-down-elements-successful-literacy-instruction. ]]> 2021-04-22 01:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mrshillier3/3henqvwugwwfa69t/wish/1445122145