Reading Components Part 1 by Nicole Hensley https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents en-us 2025-10-12 03:30:08 UTC 2025-10-13 01:45:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Listening to Sounds in Words nicolemhensley1 https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents/wish/3628271777 2025-10-12 14:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents/wish/3628271777 Classroom Activity nicolemhensley1 https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents/wish/3628275180 Activity: Sound Boxes

  • Students push a counter into a box for each sound they hear in a word.

  • Differentation:

    • Emerging learners: Use simple CVC words with clear sounds.

    • Developing learns: Blend and segment 4-5 sound words.

    • Advanced learners: Manipulate phonemes (add, delete, substitue sounds)

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  • Starfall's Phonemic Awareness Games: Free, engaging activities for practicing listening to sounds: www.starfall.com

  • Zero-to-Three Early Literacy Tips: Includes sound play activites for families who may have limited materials or time: https://www.zerotothree.org/resources

    • ]]>     2025-10-12 14:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents/wish/3628277276     Sound Wall: A visual with mouth formation pictures for each sound nicolemhensley1 https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents/wish/3628279639 2025-10-12 14:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents/wish/3628279639 Classroom Activity nicolemhensley1 https://padlet.com/nicolemhensley1/readingcomponents/wish/3628282545 Activity: Word Building with Letter Tiles

    • Students use magnetic letters or tiles to build and sound out the words

    • Differentation

      • Emerging learners: Focus on beginning letter sounds

      • Developing learners: Blend CVC words

      • Advanced learners: Work with digraphs and blends

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  • PBS Kids Reading Games: Interactive phonics and decoding practice: Https://pbskids.org/games/reading/

  • Family Phonics Toolkit (Colorin Colorado): Great for multilingual and multicultural families: https://www.colorincolorado.org/

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    • Students practice short scripts in pairs or small groups, then perform for the class.

    • Differentation

      • Emerging Learners: Use repetitive text and simple sentences

      • Developng Learners: Add short dialogues

      • Advanced Learners: Include expressive punctuation and dialogue tags.


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  • Storyline Online: Free videos of actors reading books aloud with expression: https://www.storylineonline.net/

  • Reading Rockets' Family Fluency Ideas: Includes strategies for busy or blind households: https://www.readingrockets.org/families

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  • The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

    • Phonemes are the smallest units that make up the spoken english language. English has 41. (National Reading Panel, n.d.)

  • This is an auditory skills: Students don't yet work with prented letters.

  • It is the foundation for decoding and spelling.

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  • The relationship betwen letters and the sounds they represent.

  • Phonics instruction teaches children how to connect these letters and sounds to read and spell words accurately.

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  • The ability to read text accurately, quickly and with expression.

  • Fluency bridges decoding and comprehension: When students read smoothly, they can focus on meaning. (Rasinski, 2012)

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