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Developing Phonemic Awareness in Emergent Readers (PreK-2)/Flex Course

 

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.

"I found the information presented extremely interesting and relevant to what I am doing in my classroom. I gained some wonderful ideas which I plan to implement." - Barbra Colby

 

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Topical Outline / Click here to request a copy of the syllabus

Unit One

  • Phonemic Awareness Research
  • Assessing Phonemic Awareness
  • Test #1
  • Assignment #1: Write an autobiography
  • Assignment #2: Article reflection

Unit Two

  • Auditory Discrimination
  • Introducing Letters/Alphabetic Knowledge
  • Introducing Phonemes
  • Test #2

Unit Three

  • Introducing Blending
  • Introducing Rhymes
  • Syllable Segmentation
  • Onset and Rime
  • Test #3
  • Assignment #3: Respond to a classmate

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: Develop activities for five predictable or rhyming books