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Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation
| Grades | K – 2 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Recurring Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Three 25-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Avon, Massachusetts |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Songwriting to Build Awareness of Beginning Letter Sounds
"Bessie bird lives in a barn" in this lesson in which students create alliterative animal songs to help them learn letter names and consonant sounds and build phonemic awareness.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Generating Rhymes: Developing Phonemic Awareness
Traditional chants and songs are adapted to help young students recognize and generate rhymes. The word and letter patterns involved in rhymes provide a stepping stone to reading skills.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades K – 1 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
Puzzle Me Words is a fun, educational game for primary students that reinforces letter sounds and how sounds combine to form words.
Grades K – 2 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.
CALENDAR ACTIVITIES
Grades 9 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  December 9
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram.
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
Grades K – 2 | Professional Library | Journal
Supporting Phonemic Awareness Development in the Classroom
Support literacy development through playful and appealing activities that focus on the sound structure of language.
Grades K – 1 | Professional Library | Position Statement
Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading
IRA's position on the appropriate emphasis on phonemic awareness in reading instruction.
ACTIVITIES & PROJECTS
Grades K – 2 | Activity & Project
Practice Letters and Sounds Using Online Games
Find three fun online games that are designed to help children learn to recognize letters and how they sound.

