https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6 Phonological Awareness: Kindergarten The reason that I chose Kindergarten for my grade-level is because this year is so important for developing the skills necessary for students to learn to read in the coming months or years of their education. For me, I will use these resources to inform my understanding of Phonological Awareness and the power it plays in beginnings one's reading journey. With this knowledge, I will apply grade-appropriate content to my 5th graders who are still struggling with basic phoneme identification, rhyming, and segmenting. en-us 2021-02-21 03:14:38 UTC 2026-01-02 10:19:59 UTC hello@padlet.com hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222368611 The following resources is helpful for working with Kindergarteners and expanding their knowledge of segnmenting individual phonemes in words. The activity requires students to identify the separate phonemes they hear in a word. This activity could be appropriate for differnet grade levels because you can increase the difficulty of the activity fairly easily by increasing the number of phonemes. Finally, This activity might be helpful for different learners and would be useful when supplemented with some phonics application in support. ]]> 2021-02-21 03:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222368611 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222375330 This website is a great resource for parents or families looking to implement more phonological awareness activities at HOME! One activity that would work for at home or on a road trip is "Rhyme Time." This game helps students consider the phonemes associated with a word and apply that knowledge to find another word with a similar phonemic composition. This game is best applied with younger students who are still on understanding rhyming patterns, such as Kinder through 1st grade. This will help with my target grade-level because it will help students apply their knowledge of phonemes to a rhyming pattern, which is a core standard for kindergarteners. ]]> 2021-02-21 03:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222375330 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222395233 This reasource is is great when you are thinking about developing a student's phonological awareness skills through increasingly difficult activities. Scholastics is a great resource that has been providing quality content to educators with supplemental supports. The resource suggest practicing segmenting sounds, learning about beginning sounds, and rhyme time with various activities. The book suggestions include "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More" and "Frog on a Log." Read-alouds are a great tool to support phonemic awareness understanding with kindergarteners. While these games are not for every grade level, these activities are support to various learners because it provides multiples means and types of engagement. ]]> 2021-02-21 04:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222395233 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222408861 The following resource is an example of how to use "Sergeant Smarty" to teach kindergarteners about BLENDING. Blending is a key component of phonological awareness work with young student. "Sergean Smarty" is a great example of an activity that will activilly engage studetns in this target area with visual supports. While the words are not on the board, the educator uses their hands to show the break-down of the word and how the sounds can be blended together. This is helpful for all types of students, as it support auditory and visual learners. ]]> 2021-02-21 04:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222408861 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222415566 The following PDF is a strong resource for supporting phonological awareness because it provides explanation for the basic components of phonological awarenes, and it provides various example activies to use with K-1st graders. This resource is appropriate for all lower-elementary educators because it support their understanding of phonological awareness and provide activities such as "Guess What? Guess Who." This activity specifically assists with phoneme isolation and isolating the initial and final sounds in a word. ]]> 2021-02-21 04:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222415566 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222559119 This resource would be a great support for any lower-elementary school teacher looking for a quick baseline of their student's phonological awareness skills, such as segmenting and blending. I chose this assessment because it is quick, can be used to track progress, and is aligned with the standards required for students grades K-2nd. I would use this assessment in support of my other longer assessment types, such as a Running Record. This would be helpful for my grade-level specifically because it is something that can be done quickly with individual students and can be supported by an aide in the classroom. ]]> 2021-02-21 06:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222559119 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222566223 The assessment attached would be used specifically for testing Kindergarteners and their progress towards mastering segmenting, rhyming, and the identification of phonemes. What is special about this test is that the questions become progressively harder, meaning that the content can be differentiated for individual students. Based on this information, I can understand what I need to focus on for my class as a whole group, and what needs to be supplemental in my small group time.]]> 2021-02-21 06:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222566223 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222598137 There are several reasons why the "Two Peas" Assessment would be a helpful resource for any Kindergarten teacher. First, it attaches all of the questions to the common core standards, meaning that the assessment is clearly standards aligned. Second, the assessment is formatted so that students can use manipulatives such as chips and their hands to show their thinking. This will be helpful for differnet types of learners who may need a physical stimulus to support their understanding and learning. This assessment could easily be paired with the "Carrot Boxes" that were used for phoneme work in the activities section of this padlet. ]]> 2021-02-21 06:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222598137 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222608348 This resource is especially helpful for online teaching and the realm of virtual assessments. The Rollins Center for Language and Literacy provides example videos, assessment toolkits, individual phonological awareness surveys, and scoring sheets. All the site requires is that you make a free account! I really appreciate this resource and find it helpful because it provides video support to help show new educators like me how to use a new assessment. This would be great for grade levels K-2nd, but would have to be adapted to differentiate for different types of learners. ]]> 2021-02-21 06:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222608348 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222618794 This YouTube channel would be a great support for starting up your virtual phonemic awareness work with students. The videos specically speak to Phonological Awareness development for Kindergarteneres and how to maximize your time with quick warm-up's and activities. I think this resource would be helpful for different types of learners because the speaker talks about how to differentiate the warm-up and add additional visual ques to support a variety of learners. ]]> 2021-02-21 06:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222618794 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222629899 Reading Rocket provides a helpful resource and consideration for working with ELL students, or dual language learners, and developing thier phonological awareness skills. One thing that I appreciate about this resource is that it looks to support students in their primary and secondary langauges. Because phonemic awareness, a subsection of phonological awareness, refers to our ability to manipulate phonemes in spoken words it can be helpful to consider how things such as rhyming and repetition can be replicated across languages. This activity, which requires students to listen for the rhyming in popular powetry, will helps students develop their phonemic awareness is two languages! I would use this support in 1st-3rd grade as well! ]]> 2021-02-21 06:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222629899 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222642441 A World of Language learners explains how exposure to the sounds of english can be extremely instrumental in assisting young English Language Learners in their secondary langauge acquisiton. The resource suggests using read alouds, songs, poems, and other word grames to help students to identify individual phonemes in English words. The article also suggests that other learning can be found during these activities, such as establsighing the differences between phonemes in different langauges, helping students understand new vocabulary, and help students learn new sounds. I would use these activities, which are provided in the form of a TeachersPayTeachers activity, to support my Kindergarten ELL students. These skills and activities would also be helpful for older students as well, who need support in their beginning understanding of the sounds of the english langauge. ]]> 2021-02-21 07:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222642441 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222688371 The following resource helps show how to use diagrams of the mouth adn other supports, such as sound understanding, to help ELL students work on their phonological awareness. With students who are learning their second language, it can be difficult to distinguish between phonemes in their native language and their second language being English. The video is helpful for me to work with young kindergarteners, but the strategies support by the Rennert New York Tesol Center could be applied to older students up to 3rd grade. For ELL students, it is important to balance grade-level phonological development and meeting the students needs as someone new to a language. It will also be important to compare the two languages, native and second.

Original Resource:  https://vln.school.nz/blog/view/919229/ells-and-phonological-and-phonemic-awareness

]]> 2021-02-21 07:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222688371 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222711908 MCLA provides specific tools and activities that can be used for sound matching, sound isolation, blending, addition/substitution/deletion of sound, and sound segmentation. These tools could be used and adapted for grades K-2nd. The activity I will focus on for my ELL students in Kinder would be the Bucket Sort. This activity has student sort objects by beginning sound. For ELL, this can help attach a tangible object to a specific sound. It will also introduce my ELL students to new phonemes in a fun, hands-on activity. I would supplement this activity with supports in the student's native language to draw comparisons!]]> 2021-02-21 07:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222711908 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222730574 I added this resource because it speaks to the specific needs of students with Dyslexia and their ability to master phonological awareness skills. For many of my kindergarteners, this will be their first time starting to identify rhymes, phonemes, blending, and all the skills that come with phonological awareness. At the age of 5-6 years-old, many of my students may not be diagnosed with Dyslexia, so it will be important that I understand the needs of students with this disability and what supports I can use to jumpstart their phonological awareness training. The resource provides a variety of therapeutic techniques and treatments that would help with this, such as the Lindamood Phoneme Sequence Training, Wilson Reading System, and Orton-Gillingham Method. This resource can be used by teachers in K-3rd grade as they work their way through the leveled curriculum provided in this resource.]]> 2021-02-21 07:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222730574 hopecooper20 https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222754424 The "Partners in Rhyme" app is a helpful resource for all students working on phonemic awareness and respond well to visual cues and images. This app is great for younger students and can be something that parents can download to work with students at home! I would recommend this for all of my students who need additional supports with their phonological development. ]]> 2021-02-21 08:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hopecooper20/py3b1yofn7j1r3o6/wish/1222754424