Phonemic awareness

When I watch the news the majority of the reports seems to deal with poverty, crime, hate or death. Urban communities appear to bear the brunt of these everyday tragedies. The schools within in these communities face various difficulties, which in turn influence the students in those same neighborhoods. The empathy I feel towards the plight of the urban school and their students is indescribable. Lack of resources, an inexperienced staff, along with low student achievement and expectations are…

Authors David K. Dickinson and Patton O. Tabors the authors did not discuss phonemic awareness or how well students knew the alphabet; instead choosing to discuss the importance of developing oral language in early childhood. The authors believed that exposure to rich vocabularies in home and at school (or childcare), the child has a greater command of reading comprehension in later academic settings. Thus, the authors suggest three tenets of greater oral language skills: a varied vocabulary,…

By creating guided reading lesson plans, I was able to help my students develop their phonemic awareness by incorporating word work activities that involved working with multisyllabic words. Therefore, the students were able to understand that words and syllables are made up of sequence of sounds. The word work activity in the informative text…

Reading is a very complex process and is difficult to teach to students with learning disabilities. No one reading program will work to teach all children with learning disabilites to read. Today, many students with learning disabilities cannot read or have limited reading skills. Parents, teachers, specialists, and advocates are extremely concerned with these results, because students are graduating without the abilities to read street signs, grocery items, or navigate around their communities.…

phonic awareness should be taken into consideration as a basic platform. Some of the strongest elements of each can be incorporated into a literacy program that aims to guide students toward proficient and lifelong reading skills. Based on the 14 elements of a balanced literacy program listed in Harwell chapter 11, pg.200-201, I felt interesting in fomenting the following elements as necessary to build upon toward the first steps to implementing a literacy program in my school library:…

amazing year for young students. This is when the English Language Arts learning begins transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn. The PA standards reflect that the student’s learning should focus on reading fluency, comprehension, and phonemic skills in addition to introducing, identifying, and using literary devices. There is a lot that the teachers need to cover in English Language Arts and that is why integration is my favorite thing. Many of the skills that need to be…

foundation. The fundamental aspects of reading build a foundation for understanding throughout all educational curriculum. There are many skills that successful students possess, such as receptive and expressive language, phonological and print awareness, decoding, large vocabularies, comprehension, and fluency (Litt, 2010). In establishing this foundation, early intervention methods for reading problems can be the difference in a child’s overall and future success. Without these methods,…

Data Collection All qualitative studies share main principles of data collection (Merriam, 1998, 2009). “Qualitative researchers use three main techniques to collect and analyze their data: observing people as they go about their daily activities and recording what they do; conducting in-depth interviews with people about their ideas, their opinions, and their experiences; and analyzing documents or other forms of communication” (Fraenkel & Wallen, 2009, p.440). I will use interviews and…

following article had mentioned “kids with dyslexia often have trouble with early language skills” (Rosen). For example, they can have trouble with not being able to see the individual sounds that the words are making. Where it can affect their phonemic awareness of their instruction when listening to and looking at the oral part of the language of reading. Another leading factor that is playing a role, is children that have ADHD. Where there is an issue with the brain structure and the…

Shaywitz lays out the “sea of strength” model of early identification where parents and teachers can easily see the warning signs of dyslexia (p. 93). The two key components are a weakness in getting to the sounds of words with strengths in thinking and reasoning, and then ensuring the child has assistance for their weakness and accommodations for their strengths (p. 93). Some early warning signs in the primary grades for dyslexia are a delay in speaking, difficulties with pronunciation or…