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WRITER
Er Eng Lee
ORGANISERS
English Language Teaching Centre, Malaysia
Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia
Paras 7 & 8
Blok Menara IPBA
Lembah Pantai
59200 Kuala Lumpur.
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daripada English Language Teaching Centre, Malaysia, Kementerian Pelajaran
Malaysia, Paras 7 & 8, Blok Menara IPBA, Lembah Pantai, 59200 Kuala Lumpur.
2011
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pair
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chair
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hair
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The Connection
between Phonemic
Awareness and Phonics
As children learn how letters
represent sounds, they develop
greater awareness of the
sounds in words. And as
children develop greater
phonemic awareness, they
become better able to use
letter-sound patterns to read
new words
Developing Phonemic
Awareness
Effective phonemic awareness
instruction teaches children to notice,
think about, and work with
(manipulate) sounds in spoken
language. Pupils need to know that
a word is made up of a series of
discrete (separate) sounds.
Activities to build phonemic
awareness:
1. Phoneme Isolation
2. Phoneme identity
3. Phoneme categorization
4. Phoneme blending
5. Phoneme Segmentation
6. Phoneme deletion
7. Phoneme addition
8. Phoneme substitution
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Ms Aina, a Year One English teacher Kuala Tatau, Bintulu, found some activities for phoneme
awareness. Unfortunately, she was not sure of the description that matches the phoneme
manipulation. Help Ms Aina by completing the table below. The first answer has been done for
you.
a.
b.
Pp
c.
Tr
Pp
d.
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f.
e.
Children recognize the word
that remains when a phoneme
is removed from another word.
Tr : What is smile
without the /s/?
Ps : Smile without /s/ is
mile.
g.
h.
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2 Phoneme deletion
3 Phoneme categorization
4 Phoneme addition
5 Phoneme isolation
6 Phoneme segmentation
7 Phoneme Blending
8 Phoneme Identity
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2 Phoneme deletion
3 Phoneme categorization
4 Phoneme addition
5 Phoneme isolation
6 Phoneme segmentation
7 Phoneme Blending
d
b
8 Phoneme Identity
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Teaching Phonemic Awareness
Oral Blending
Oral blending exercises help pupils hear how sounds are put
together to make words. They prepare children to decode
(sound out or blend) words independently. Oral blending
exercises begin with blending larger word parts, such as
syllables, and progress to blending onsets and rimes, and
finally whole word sound by sound.
Blending is the
process of
combining
phonemes
together to
pronounce a
whole word.
1. Robot Talk
Children learn to talk just like a robot (or any other appealing fictional or cartoon-like character) by
saying the sounds in words slowly, one after the other.
You will be introduced to Robbie the Robot.
Robbie talks only in sounds. For example, Robbie might say, /m/-/a/-/n/. What word did Robbie
say?
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2. Arm Blending
Arm blending is a tactile, kinesthetic approach to blending that children can use on their own
when reading all sorts of materials in all sorts of places.
Materials: Nothing special.
Steps:
1. Have children imagine that they place sounds on their arms. For example, to blend /f/, /a/,
/n/, children put their right hand on their left shoulder (reverse for left-handed children) and
say /f/, their hand in the crook of their arm and say /a/, and their hand on their wrist and
say /n/.
2. Children blend by saying sounds as they slide their hands from shoulder to wrist. When
finished, the children again pronounce the whole blended word. Mentally "placing" sounds
on their arms helps children remember the right sounds in the right order.
3. The motion of the sweeping hand sliding down the arm is a kind of tactile analog for what
the voice does when sliding sounds together during blending.
Follow the instructions given by your trainer. What was the word you blended?
3. Picture Blending
This activity uses pictures to develop the concept of blending (Catts & Vartianinen, 1993 in Word
Identification Strategies, Barbara, Fox, 2004)
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Work with a partner to demonstrate the strategy
Materials: Large pictures of familiar objects; scissors
Steps:
1. Show a picture and say the picture name. Cut the picture into the phonemes for the
purpose of blending. For example, you might cut a picture of a boat into three parts, one
for /b/, one for /oa/ (long /o/), and one for /t/.
2. Point to each picture piece and say the sound it represents. For example, point to the first
part of the boat picture while saying /b/, to the second part saying /oa/ (long /o/) and to the
third when saying /t/. Explain that the piece of picture go together just like the sounds go
together to make a word. Demonstrate by moving the picture pieces together while you
blend the sound to pronounce /boat/.
3. Ask the children to push the picture pieces together on their own while blending sounds.
4. Extend this activity to written language by writing the letters under each picture. After
children blend, talk about the sounds in words and the letters the sounds represent.
4. Sliding Sounds
The slide in the sliding sounds together activity gives learners a visual cue for blending. After
sounds are blended, the whole words is written at the bottom of the slide.
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Rimes, Phonograms, and Word Families
Rimes and
phonograms refer to
the vowel and any
consonant that comes
after it in a syllable (the
at in cat).
According to Fox (2004), identifying words by their analogous onsets and rimes is easier
than decoding words letter-sound by letter-sound. First, learning that ent represents /ent/
is far less taxing than learning that the e represents the sound of /e/, n the sound of /n/,
and t the sound of /t/. Second, blending onsets and rimes is much easier than blending
individual sounds because with onsets and rimes there are only two items to blend.
You will be given the opportunity to explore some of the activities which you might be able
to borrow in your classroom teaching. (Refer to the table below for more information on
onsets and rimes Handout 17c)
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a.
b.
Materials: A strip of paper as slide to write the onsets. A medium-sized shape (of any
animal) to serve as the body of the slide. Make the window large enough so that the
strip with onsets can be threaded through it.
Steps:
1. As the children to pull the strip
through the slide, different words
are formed.
2. Ask children to write down the
words they make.
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TABLE
4-3 Onsets and Short Vowel Rimes for Word Family Word Building
Rimes
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op
ug
ap
ell
ack
at
en
id
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um
ip
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ash
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in
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ot
in
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c
b
b
c
b
s
b
s
m
n
d
h
g
t
f
t
h
y
h
d
h
1
P
1
r
p
1
r
m
n
w
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1
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m
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Oral Segmentation
Oral segmentation activities help children to separate words into
sounds. These exercises should begin with a focus on syllables,
which are easier to distinguish than individual sounds.
Segmentation activities prepare children for spelling, for which
whey begin segmenting words into their component sounds in
order to write them.
Segmenting sounds
is the process of
pronouncing each
phoneme in the
same order in which
it occurs in a word.
Given below are some activities you can use to teach the pupils
oral segmenting (sound awareness). In your groups, study the
activities and state whether they are suitable for your pupils and
why you think so.
a. Sound Boxes with Pictures
Segmenting sounds
Pictures help children remember the words they are separating into sounds. This activity is
appropriate for children who are just beginning to pay attention to the sounds in words.
Materials: Sound boxes, as shown in Figure A; tokens; pictures with two-, three-, or foursound names.
Steps:
1. Give each child a piece of paper with several pictures and sets of sound boxes. The
number of connected boxes below each picture should equal the number of sounds in
the picture's name.
2. Call attention to the picture and slowly say its name, rubber banding the sounds.
Children push a token into a box for each sound heard (sound segmenting). Have
children count the boxes.
3. Talk about the idea that each box represents only one sound. Ask children to say
together in chorus the individual sounds in the word by pointing to each box as they
say the sound.
4. Last, have children blend sounds to pronounce the whole word, tracking (sweeping)
their fingers under boxes as they say the sounds.
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Figure A
Sound awareness
increases when children
move tokens into boxes for
the sounds they hear in
words and point to the
tokens that represent
beginning, middle, and
ending sounds.
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c. Sound Boxes With Letters
Segmenting Sounds (Associating Letters and Sounds)
Children remember the sounds in words and associate them with letters you have
already written in the boxes.
Materials: Sound boxes with letter written in them.
Steps:
1. As children move tokens into each box, you call their attention to the letter
written inside the box.
2. After all the tokens are moved into boxes, pronounce the whole word.
3. Ask the children to say the sounds one at a time. Have the children move the
token in each box to reveal the letter. (Children need only slide the token just
below the boxes.)
4. Ask children to identify each letter as they (or you) identify the sound. Talk
about the letters that go with the sounds.
d. Sound Graphing
Segmenting Sounds
Working in small groups or with a partner, children make a graph showing words with two,
three, or four sounds.
Materials: Pictures; tape; a large piece of newsprint. Beforehand draw two, three, and four
connected boxes at the top of the newsprint, spacing boxes fairly far apart. Fasten the
newsprint to a bulletin board.
Steps:
1. Children count the sounds in picture names. Children then tape the pictures below the
connected boxes that match the number of sounds in the names.
2. When finished, children have a giant graph that shows words with different numbers of
sounds similar to the graph in Figure B.
3. Integrate this activity with mathematics by adding up the words under each group of
connected boxes, as well as the total number of words found. Talk about distribution
and proportion (most, least).
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Figure B Graphing sounds
gives children practice
identifying the number of
sounds in words, and the
finished graph is a wonderful
resource for integrating
language arts with
mathematics.
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e. Interactive spelling
Segmenting Sounds (Associating Letters With Sounds,)Blending
Interactive spelling is a technique in which you, the teacher, ask children to join you in spelling
words by listening for sounds and then associating letters with them.
Materials: Nothing special.
Steps:
1. Begin by pronouncing a word slowly, rubber banding it so that all the sounds are clearly
heard, yet connected together.
2. Ask the children what sound they hear at the beginning and what letter goes with that
sound. Write the letter on the board. Again pronounce the word, only this time emphasize
the second sound as you rubber band the pronunciation.
3. Have children tell you the letter that goes with that sound, and write that letter on the
board. Continue rubber banding and emphasizing the sounds children are to match with
letters until the entire word is spelled.
4. To give children practice blending sounds, read the word with them, sliding your finger
under the letters as the sounds are pronounced.
This technique helps children develop greater phonemic awareness, reinforces letter-sound
knowledge and blending, and supports conventional spelling. Interactive spelling is most
successful when used with phonetically regular words; that is, words that sound like they are
spelled, such as man, lime, and
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f. Sound Tapping
Segmenting Sounds
Children tap a pencil for every sound in a word.
Materials: Nothing special.
Steps:
1. Say a word and have children tap a pencil once for each sound heard.
2. Rubber banding and repeating words help children focus on the individual phonemes.
Begin with two-sound words (/ape/).
3. After children can tap the phonemes in two-sound words, introduce three- (/cap/) and then
four-sound (/soda/) words.
Isolating Sounds
a. I Spy
This gamelike activity is excellent for those times when the class is getting ready to go to lunch,
RE., art, the library, or home for the day.
Materials: Nothing special.
Steps:
1. Think of something in your room and say, "I spy something that begins with /_/ (a beginning
sound)." Children then think of things in the room that begin with the same beginning sound.
2. Focus attention on ending or middle sounds by asking children to find objects with names that
either end with a certain sound or have a specified sound in the middle.
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b. Popcorn Sounds
Identifying Sounds
In this fast moving activity, children in a small group take turns saying the beginning, middle, or
ending sound in picture names.
Materials: Cards with pictures and words on them.
Steps:
1. Show children who are sitting around a table a selection of picture-word cards. Point to a card
and say, "Popcorn," followed by a child's name, and the position of the sound the child is to
identify (beginning, middle, end) in the picture name. For example, in pointing to a picture of a
pig you might say, "Popcorn: Annaleise. Beginning sound." Annaleise then says the beginning
sound, /p/.
2. Annaleise now passes her turn to another child by pointing to a different picture-word card,
saying a child's name and asking for a beginning (middle or ending) sound. The activity
continues until everyone has had a turn or until all of the beginning (middle or ending) sounds
are identified.
C. Class Roll
Identifying Sounds/Letter Names
This activity also fits nicely into small bits of time when children are transitioning from one activity
to the next. Class roll uses children's names to develop beginning sound awareness.
Materials: Nothing special.
Steps:
1. Say something like, "I am thinking of someone in our class whose name begins with the same
sounds as bug and bear. Who is it?" When children say, "Bobby," ask them what letter Bobby
begins with. Write the upper and lower case letter on the chalkboard. Name the letter or ask a
child to give the letter name.
2. Use this activity, or your own personal adaptation of it, to line up children for lunch, for recess,
or to go home at the end of the school day.
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Samples of Phonics lessons
Jolliffe (2006)
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High Frequency Word List
(Source: Teaching Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Recognition. Ashely & Suzanne Bishop. Teacher Created
Materials. 2001)
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