Phonemic Awareness (Phonological Awareness)
Resources for Teachers
These references provide teachers with a foundation of phonemic awareness, and its importance to future reading, spelling, and writing ability. They also include a wealth of useful activities.
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum Marilyn Jager Adams, Barbara R. Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, Terri Beeler
Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing Patricia Marr Cunningham
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction
Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine Johnston
These collections of activities, songs, and poems provide children with natural ways of exploring sounds of phonemes and phonograms. They offer enjoyable methods for building phonemic awareness through alliteration, rhyme and manipulation of sounds.
Dr. Jean’s Teaching Tunes Audio CD and Mini-Books SetsBasic Concepts With Sing-Along Mini-Books That Build Early Literacy Skills
Early Phonics With Sing-Along Mini-Books That Build Early Literacy Skills
Favorite Songs With Sing-Along Mini-Books That Build Early Literacy Skills
12 Delightful Nursery Rhyme Songs With Sing-Along Mini-Books That Build Early Literacy Skills
I’m All Ears: Sing Into Reading and Little Ears -- Fran Avni and Nancy Schimmel
You can see and hear some of Fran and Nancy’s songs on our Phonemic Awareness Songs page. Many of these songs invite children to produce rhymes and manipulate phonemes.
Perfect Poems for Teaching Phonics (Grades K-2)Deborah Ellermeyer, Judi Hechtman, Sandy Ford Grove
Phonemic Awareness: Playing With Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills
Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success (Grades K-2)
Phonemic Awareness Songs & Rhymes (Grades PreK-2) -- Wiley Blevins
Phonemic Awareness Through Language Play
Phonics Through Poetry: Teaching Phonemic Awareness Using Poetry
More! Phonics Through Poetry: Teaching Phoenemic Awareness Using Poetry Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Rhymes and Reason : Literature & Language Play for Phonological Awareness. Michael F. Opitz (Rather than supplying new poetry, this reference shows how you can use children’s literature to draw attention to various aspects of phonemic awareness.)
Sounds in Action: Phonological Awareness Activities & Assessment
Yvette Zgonc (Reproducible assessment form are included, along with varied activities to build phonological awareness.)
Be sure to see our pages on:
Word Families
Working and Playing with Words
Songsthat Build Phonological Awareness
