Phonemic Awareness
What is Phonemic Awareness...
Phonological Awareness is a broad skill that includes the ability to hear, isolate, discriminate, and manipulate individual sounds or sound combinations. This includes identifying syllables, words, and onsets and rimes. Phonemic awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Children need phonemic awareness skills before they can begin to understand phonics/decoding.
Target when Universal Screening data indicates that ≤ 60% of the class is proficient in the following subtests:
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IGDIS: Picture Naming, Rhyming, Sound Identification, Which One Doesn’t Belong First, Sounds/Alliteration
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FAST: Onset Sounds, Letter Sounds, Word Segmenting
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AIMsWEB: Letter Sounds (LS) and Phoneme Segmentation (PS)
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DIBELS: First Sound Fluency (FSF) and Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF)
Instructional Examples
Possible Materials
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General Outcome Indicator
(How do you know it’s working?)
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Implement a classwide intervention with fidelity for a recommended 10-14 days.
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Reassess/progress monitor students to make a determination if changes are needed.
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Questions to consider: Were you consistent with implementing this classwide intervention? Did your class as a whole make progress on this skill? Should you embed this intervention or routine into your core instruction?
