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Phonemic Awareness Exploring the Auditory Elements of Speech

Phonological awareness is considered the umbrella under which phonemic awareness is a part. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds--phonemes--in spoken words. Children cannot attain full phonemic awareness without understanding that oral language consists of sentences, sentences consist of words, words consist of syllables, and syllables consist of sound chunks (e.g., onset/rime). Phonemic awareness represents a series of related tasks that vary in difficulty. It develops alongside a growing awareness of print concepts. There is no research base to support one phonological awareness continuum over another; in fact, it is not clear that phonemic awareness does develop in any specific order.  [|ARI]

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Many phonemic awareness activities can be created by using your computer's recording function or a simple voice recorder.
 * Teaching Phonemic Awareness with Recordings **

**To use your computer's recorder... ** ** To use a voice recorder.. **.
 * 1) Click start, all programs, accessories, and sound recorder.
 * 2) Plug in your microphone and click the red circle to record your phonemic awareness activity. You will have 60 seconds recording time. Be sure to pause between words.
 * 3) Click the square to stop recording
 * 4) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Click file and save to save your activity.
 * 5) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will click on the file to open it up and listen to and complete the phonemic awareness activity.
 * 1) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Record and save your phonemic awareness activity to your voice recorder
 * 2) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Connect your recorder to your computer with the cord
 * 3) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">With both the computer and voice recorder on, save your files from your recorder to your computer

** Recording Activities **

** Phoneme Segmentation **

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 * 1) Record yourself saying words and separate the phonemes
 * 2) Have students write the correct phoneme for each word
 * 3)  Phonemic Awareness Podcast (thanks AW at Tanner Williams Elementary )

** Syllable Count ** media type="file" key="Syllable.wav" width="300" height="50"
 * 1) Record yourself saying several words with multiple syllables and save your recording to your computer
 * 2) Have students clap or count the different syllables

**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Thumbs Up for Rhyming Words **
 * 1) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Optional-have the students record the number of syllables on a sheet of paper.

media type="file" key="rhyming recording.wav" width="300" height="50" **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teaching Sound Substitution **
 * 1) Record yourself saying words that rhyme and words that do not rhyme.
 * 2) [|Rhyming Word Site]
 * 3) Have students listen and give a thumbs up to the rhyming pair of words and a thumbs down to the words that do not rhyme

media type="file" key="Sound Substitution.wav" width="300" height="50" 3. Optional-create a laminated handout with sentences and word cards 4. [|What rhymes with.doc], [|rhyming words.doc]
 * 1) Record yourself asking questions in this format... What rhymes with pig and begins with d?
 * 2) Save your recording and have students supply the missing word.

** Best of the Net (additional websites on Internet Resources page) **


 * 1) New! [|Storys Online]
 * 2) *Must Read from the the Reading Genie*
 * 3) [|Fun Brain Writer's Block]
 * 4) [|DLTK]
 * 5) [|Words and Pictures from BBC]
 * 6) [|Enchanted Learning Printables]
 * 7) [|Printable Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Activities]
 * 8) [|Orson's Farm from Garfield]
 * 9) [|Teacher Resources]
 * 10) [|Berenstain Bears]
 * 11) [|Beginning of the Year Phonemic Awareness Games]
 * 12) [|Songs for Phonemic Awareness]