Phonemic Awareness

Course Agenda

Day 1

  • Why Teach Phonics?
  • The "Ph" Words: Phonological Processing, Phonetics, Phoneme Awareness, and Phonics
  • Why Phoneme Awareness is so Important
  • The Sequence of English PA Development
  • Teaching Phonological Skill: General Principals
  • Discover the Speech Sounds of English
  • Homework Assignment

Day 2

  • Vowels and Their Articulation
  • Chameleon Phonemes: How Phonemes Change in Speech
  • Teaching Phonological Skill: Some Specifics
  • Sound Blending and Segmentation
  • Debriefing of Homework