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Phonological Awareness Activites

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Karen Soutar (happy)

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Date Posted: 09:00:15 07/27/12 Fri

I have been working as a class room assistant for 2 years and an activity that I have found useful to help with phonological awareness is to use manipulatives, 3 or 4 boxes are drawn side by side on a piece of paper and I say a word with 2, 3 or 4 phonemes. As I say the word, slowly (pronunciation must be clear) the child puts an object into a box while every phoneme is said. For example, "flag" /f/l/a/g/ - has 4 phonemes so the child puts 4 objects into each box. You could vary the objects, from counters to jellybeans!
I have also found magnetic letters really useful in showing the structure of words, and the students seem to enjoy moving the letters around into different combinations, learning about prefixes and suffixes etc. For example, I have the word "drill" - what would happen if I took away the /dr/ - what word is it now? or take the word "some" and add "thing" - what has it become? and so on.

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Re: Phonological Awareness Activites	Ann C Turner (have tutored dyslexics since 1955)	16:25:43 08/01/12 Wed