Phonemic Awareness in Young Children

by Adams, Marilyn Jager; Foorman, Barbara R.; Lundberg, Ingvar; Beeler, Terri

• ISBN13: 9781557663214
• ISBN10: 1557663211
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Brookes Pub

Summary

Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness - now known to be an important step to a child's early reading acquisition - this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings. With a developmental sequence of activities that follows a school year calendar, teachers can chose from a range of activities for their preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade classrooms. Plus, the curriculum includes an easy-to-use assessment test for screening up to 15 children at a time. This assessment not only helps to objectively estimate the general skill level of the class and identify children who may need additional testing but may also

Author Biography

Marilyn Jager Adams is Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Barbara R. Foorman is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. Ingvar Lundberg is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Goteborg University in Sweden. Terri Beeler is Assistant Professor of Urban Education at the University of Houston's downtown campus.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii
1 The Nature and Importance of Phonemic Awareness	1	(8)
What Research Says About Phonemic Awareness	2	(1)
About the Structure of Language	3	(2)
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum	5	(4)
Notes to the Special Education Teacher	5	(1)
The Structure of the Program	5	(4)
2 The Language Games	9	(6)
About the Use of the Language Games	9	(2)
Overview of the Program	11	(1)
Brief Description of the Games in Practice	12	(3)
Chapter 3: Listening Games	12	(1)
Chapter 4: Rhyming	12	(1)
Chapter 5: Words and Sentences	13	(1)
Chapter 6: Awareness of Syllables	13	(1)
Chapter 7: Initial and Final Sounds	13	(1)
Chapter 8: Phonemes	13	(1)
Chapter 9: Introducing Letters and Spellings	14	(1)
3 Listening Games	15	(14)
3A Listening to Sounds	16	(1)
3B Listening to Sequences of Sounds	17	(2)
3C Jacob, Where Are You?	19	(1)
3D Hiding the Alarm Clock	20	(1)
3E Who Says What?	21	(1)
3F Whisper Your Name	22	(1)
3G Nonsense	23	(2)
3H Whispering Game	25	(1)
3I Do You Remember?	26	(3)
4 Rhyming	29	(10)
4A Poetry, Songs, and Jingles	30	(1)
4B Rhyme Stories	31	(1)
4C Emphasizing Rhyme Through Movement	32	(1)
4D Word Rhyming	33	(1)
4E Can You Rhyme?	34	(2)
4F The Ship Is Loaded with	36	(1)
4G Action Rhymes	37	(1)
4H Rhyme Book	38	(1)
5 Words and Sentences	39	(10)
5A Introducting the Idea of Sentences	40	(1)
5B Introducting the Idea of a Word	41	(2)
5C Hearing Words in Sentences	43	(2)
5D Exercises with Short and Long Words	45	(2)
5E Words in Context and Out	47	(2)
6 Awareness of Syllables	49	(8)
6A Clapping Names	50	(1)
6B Take One Thing from the Box	51	(2)
6C The King's Queen's Successor	53	(2)
6D Listening First, Looking After	55	(1)
6E Troll Talk I: Syllables	56	(1)
7 Initial and Final Sounds	57	(14)
7A Guess Who	58	(1)
7B Different Words, Same Initial Phoneme	59	(2)
7C Finding Things: Initial Phonemes	61	(1)
7D I'm Thinking of Something	62	(2)
7E Word Pairs I: Take a Sound Away (Analysis)	64	(1)
7F Word Pairs II: Add a Sound (Synthesis)	65	(1)
7G Different Words, Same Final Phoneme	66	(1)
7H Finding Things: Final Phonemes	67	(1)
7I Spider's Web	68	(3)
With Word Pair I	68	(1)
With Word Pair II	69	(2)
8 Phonemes	71	(20)
8A Two-Sound Words	73	(3)
8B Basic Three-Sound Words	76	(4)
Analysis to Synthesis	76	(1)
Synthesis to Analysis	77	(1)
Analysis and Synthesis	77	(3)
8C Consonant Blends: Adding and Subtracting Initial Sounds	80	(3)
Analysis to Synthesis	80	(1)
Synthesis to Analysis	81	(1)
Analysis and Synthesis	81	(2)
8D Consonant Blends: Inserting and Removing Internal Sounds	83	(3)
Analysis to Synthesis	83	(1)
Synthesis to Analysis	84	(1)
Analysis and Synthesis	84	(2)
8E Building Four-Sound Words	86	(2)
8F Guess a Word	88	(1)
8G Troll Talk II: Phonemes	89	(2)
9 Introducing Letters and Spellings	91	(16)
9A Guess Who: Introducing Sounds and Letters	94	(1)
9B Picture Names: Initial Sounds and Letters	95	(2)
9C I'm Thinking of Something: Initial Sounds and Letters	97	(1)
9D Picture Names: Final Sounds and Letters	98	(2)
9E Picture Search: Initial or Final Consonants	100	(1)
9F Introduction to How Words Are Spelled: Add a Letter	101	(2)
9G Swap a Letter	103	(1)
9H Sounding Words	104	(3)
10 Assessing Phonological Awareness	107	(26)
The Assessment Test	108	(1)
Materials	108	(1)
The Testing Procedure	108	(1)
Detecting Rhymes	109	(4)
Description	109	(1)
Administration	109	(1)
Scoring	110	(3)
Counting Syllables	113	(4)
Description	113	(1)
Administration	113	(1)
Scoring	114	(3)
Matching Initial Sounds	117	(4)
Description	117	(1)
Administration	117	(1)
Scoring	118	(3)
Counting Phonemes	121	(3)
Description	121	(1)
Administration	121	(1)
Scoring	121	(3)
Comparing Word Lengths	124	(3)
Description	124	(1)
Administration	124	(1)
Scoring	124	(3)
Representing Phonemes with Letters	127	(4)
Description	127	(1)
Administration	127	(1)
Scoring	127	(4)
Interpreting the Results	131	(2)
Appendix A: Phonetic Symbols and Classifications of American English Consonants and Vowels	133	(4)
Appendix B: Suggested Kindergarten Schedule	137	(8)
Appendix C: Suggested First-Grade Schedule	145	(6)
Appendix D: Accompanying Materials and Resources	151	(2)
Appendix E: Advanced Language Games	153	(6)
Appendix F: Annotated Bibliography of Rhyming Stories	159	(12)
Appendix G: Poems, Fingerplays, Jingles, and Chants	171	(6)
Index	177