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Phonemic Awareness Picture Pages - Any Level

This book teaches phonemic awareness skills along with other phonological awareness skills.  
Many of the exercises in the Phonemic Awareness Picture Pages book are already included in the Learning The Alphabet and Exploring Sounds In Words books.    ​
Who Should Use This Book?
​This book is designed to provide phonological awareness and phonemic awareness instruction to students of any age who need it.  It can be used with students who have not yet been taught these skills, and it can be used for extra practice with students who have received initial instruction in this area but need more time to master it.  You can use it with the following types of students..  
  1. Students who have not yet begun to study the alphabet.
  2. Students who are learning the alphabet or starting beginning reading instruction in a program that does not provide phonological and phonemic awareness instruction.
  3. Students who have done the phonological and phonemic awareness exercises in the Learning The Alphabet and Exploring Sounds In Words books but still need more practice.     
  4. Students who are learning to read.  
  5. Students who are already reading but are having difficulty with word recognition skills and comprehension skills.  This includes students who did not receive phonological awareness and phonemic awareness instruction in their beginning reading program and also students who need a refresher course to review those skills.
  6. Students who would benefit from oral blending and segmenting exercises for words that have beginning and ending consonant blends.  
What Is Phonological Awareness?  What Is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonological awareness is the understanding of sound units related to words.  These units include  whole words, parts of words, and the individual sounds in words.  Students develop phonological  awareness through guided oral exercises with the teacher that involve listening and speech.  
Phonological awareness instruction is not the same as phonics instruction.  It does not involve working with written words, letters, or letter patterns.  
Phonemic awareness is a specific type of phonological awareness.  It focuses on the smallest sound units in words, which are called phonemes.    ​
What Skills Are Taught In The Phonemic Awareness Picture Pages Book?
  • Syllable Awareness
  • Rhyming
  • Beginning, Middle, And Ending Sounds In Words
  • Oral Blending
  • Segmenting
  • Print Awareness Lessons (From the Learning The Alphabet books.)
  • Language Overview (Brief history of written language)
  • Awareness of spoken syllables
  • Awareness of rhyming words
In the Sound City Reading program, the phonemic awareness exercises are done in a slightly different way.  Although students do not see letters or words during the activity, pictures are used as a visual reference during the lessons.  The pictures help students understand the meaning of the spoken words that are created by putting single sounds together.  The pictures also provide a way for students to record their answers.
The two phonemic awareness exercises taught in this book are oral blending and segmenting.
  1. Oral Blending - The teacher pronounces separate sounds, one sound at a time, for a series of words.  Students listen, put the sounds together mentally, say the word, and find the related picture.  
  2. Segmenting - Students hear a spoken word and must break the word apart into its individual sounds, saying each sound one at a time. 
Sample Pages From Phonemic Awareness Picture Pages

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