Chapter Title: Phonemic Awareness and Phonics: The Sounds of Language

Chapter 8
Presenters: Miss Gaby Ochoa and Miss Jessica Ochoa
Description of presentation (brief summary of the chapter plus activities
used from appendixes and/or Already Ready book). Please, include at least
one photo/video.
Children develop phonological awareness skills and understand the role of
print in the world at the same time. In order to do the first, teachers should
help children listen to parts of the words and and to sounds by engaging
them in reading, writing, and oral language activities that are playful and
enjoyable. The activities could include:
Reading aloud.
Shared reading and writing.
Songs, chants and rhymes.
Books that involve language word play.
Oral games: clapping syllables, picture sorting, listening for sounds,
rhyming words, letter play, labels, alphabet soup, matching sounds,
phoneme fun, concentration, ABC travel, collecting sound pictures,
mystery sounds, etc.
Some of the activities used by the presenters were:
Listening for particular beginning sounds by playing I spy.
Playing a letter sounds hunt.
Making and singing the ABC book (Antonio the Apple, A, A, A).
Using labels in the classroom for common objects.
Evidence
N1

N2

N3

Singing during circle time and transitions with students

names cards, emphasizing beginning letter sounds
Listening for particular beginning sounds by playing I spy
Playing a letter sound hunt
Making and singing the ABC book (Antonio the Apple, A, A,
A)
Using labels in the classroom for common objects

Using songs and rhymes

PK4

PK5

K6
K7

PK-K8

PK9
K10
PK-K11

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Using flash cards

Matching and making pairs with phonemes and letter names
Forming their name
Using songs and rhymes
Making and singing to a Halloween book that includes
English vocabulary, rhyming words, and repeated book
language
Clapping syllables
Looking for and playing with beginning and ending sounds
Listening activities with letter songs and rhymes
Using a Phonemes Box (realia)
Using songs for routines and transitions
Using rhymes like the ones found in Raffis books and
students names
Reading poems
Playing the Chipper game
-Pre-k (initial sound)
-K (ending sound)
Using songs
Finding the sound that doesnt belong
Introducing different versions of a song and singing to it
Using poems to learn rhymes
Clapping syllables and counting the parts in a word
Using chants and rhymes

Using rhyming songs and poems

Writing upper case vowels
Learning letter names and sounds
Playing Mystery Sounds and an alliteration game (vowels)
ABC story Mis primeras palabras mexicanas