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This course focuses on developing a child’s phonemic awareness to prepare him or her to be a successful reader. The course begins with phonemic awareness assessment options. Based on the assessment results, you can determine which strategies are most appropriate for each student. Instructional strategies presented in the course include: rhyming, alliteration, onset and rime, syllable segmentation, and many more.

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Topical Outline:

Unit One What the Research Says About Phonemic Awareness Assessing Phonemic Awareness Assignment #1: Write an autobiography Assignment #2: Article reflection Test #1 Unit Two Auditory Discrimination Introducing Letters/Alphabetic Knowledge Introducing Phonemes Test #2 Unit Three Introducing Blending Introducing Rhymes Syllable Segmentation Onset and Rime Assignment #3: Respond to a classmate Test #3

Unit Four Language Experience Approach Importance of Comprehension Test #4 Unit Five Cloze Procedure and Maze Technique Assessment Through Retelling High Frequency and Sight Words Test #5 Unit Six Emergent Writing Domains of Writing Great Books Assignment #4: Select five predictable or rhyming books you would like to use with your students. Develop activities that reinforces the rhyming language in the stories.

 

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