ECS-430 by carly klingaman

Phonemic Awareness

carlyklingaman1 — 2025-10-06 00:18:24 UTC

This is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words. Phonemic awareness is an auditory skill that does not require letters or print. It also serves as a foundation for learning phonics and reading.

One activity is to listen to the sounds of a letter and finding an object that starts with that sound.

The second activity is saying the sound of the letter and putting the letter sounds together and saying the word that it makes.

Phonics

carlyklingaman1 — 2025-10-06 00:25:23 UTC

Phonics is a method is teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or a group of letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.

One activity that can be done is clapping out syllables for the different words.

The second activity that could be a word bingo.

Fluency

carlyklingaman1 — 2025-10-06 00:31:45 UTC

Fluency in literacy is the ability to read text correctly, and with the appropriate speed and expression. They will also understand the meaning of the words and the text. It can involve developing in word recognition so that the reader can focus on the message of the text rather than decoding the words, and it will lead to a better comprehension.

One activity could be partner reading with a friend to read different text.

A fun activity that could be done is a reader's theatre, where they are reading a script to the class, like a theatre.

Vocabulary

carlyklingaman1 — 2025-10-13 00:48:45 UTC

This is the body of words used in a language.

A fun activity for vocabulary is charades. The kids are acting out a word that they are learning, and their classmates have to guess what word they are acting out.

Vocabulary Comprehension

carlyklingaman1 — 2025-10-13 00:52:59 UTC

This is the ability to understand the meaning of words to grasp the meaning of a text. It also is the foundation for reading comprehension, like knowing the words in sentences.

A fun activity for this is a game called what is another word for. This is where the teacher is telling them a word and asking what another word can be for that word.

Resources to help Families

carlyklingaman1 — 2025-10-13 00:57:48 UTC

PBS kids online is something that can help kids learn with some fun interactive activities.

Reading Rockets is something for families to use to help their kids learn reading and gives them some more information on what they can do with their kids.