How can I help a child sound

out new words?

Phonological
Awareness
WebQuest

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 Phonemic Awareness
WebQuest
This WebQuest is part of the Time for Literacy
(TFL) project sponsored by the Bonneville
Community Literacy Counsel (CLC). Susan
H. Grover designed this WebQuest
This WebQuest supplements training sessions
for the TFL volunteer tutors.
For more information on TFL or the CLC, visit
www.grovers.us/clc
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Phonemic Awareness WebQuest
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WebQuest Information
Introduction
Task
Process
Phonemic Awareness
Activities
Diverse Needs
Balanced Reading
Conclusion
Credits
INTRODUCTION

This WebQuest will help you find

and organize Internet
resources.

After you complete this WebQuest

you will be able to answer the
common tutoring question:
“How can I help my student
sound out words?”

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TASK

You can improve a child’s life. You

have the ambition now develop
the skill.
After completing this WebQuest
you will:
– design activities that promote
phonemic awareness,
– determine the diverse
learning needs of your
students, and
– combine elements of reading
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PROCESS

Each slide poses a question.

Select the answer button on
each slide to visit web
resources detailing:
– phonemic awareness
activities
– diverse learning needs
– balancing reading
elements

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PROCESS

A study guide button introduces

each section.
After completing the web quest,
use the rubric to asses how
well this web quest answered
your questions.
E-mail the rubric to
groverds@grovers.us.
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WHAT & HOW

Study Guide

The following web resources

explain the elements of
language that children need
in order to learn to read.

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WHAT & HOW

What is phonemic Answer

awareness?
Word Awareness
Rhyme Awareness
Onset and Rime
Syllable Awareness
Phonemic Awareness

Reading A-Z. Proquest. Retrieved on Oct. 29, 2005, from

.http://www.readinga-z.com/research/phonological.html. (Used for information and advertising p
purposes only. If you would like more information or to use materials go to the web page.)

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WHAT & HOW
How can I use phonemic Answer

awareness to improve my
students' reading?
How does phonemic
awareness fit into the
process of learning to read?
How is phonemic awareness
taught?

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ACTIVITIES

Study Guide

The following web resources

link you with activities to
practice phonemic
awareness.

These activities include

nursery rhymes, songs, flash
card, games, lesson plans
and other activities.
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ACTIVITIES
How can I help my student Answer

review letters and sounds?

In this lesson, students

consider animals from A to
Z while learning the letters
of the alphabet and the
different sounds they make.

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ACTIVITIES

How can I use songs to Answer

teach phonemic awareness?

This link includes audio clips,

printed version of the words
and lesson plan suggestions.

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ACTIVITIES

How can I use nursery Answer

rhymes to teach phonemic

awareness?

This link shows a number of

activities derived from one
rhyme, Humpty Dumpty.

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ACTIVITIES
How can I practice word Answer

families with my student?

This lesson introduces word

sorts with short “a” word
families: –at –an, –ap,
and –ack.
It includes flash cards,
pictures and activity pages.

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ACTIVITIES
How can I help my student Answer

link letters with sounds?

This lesson introduces

beginning sounds and
riming sounds.
It includes flash cards,
pictures and activity pages.

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How can I use phonemic Answer

awareness in a lesson?

This lesson examines

onset/rime patterns in word
families, reviews vocabulary
with a memory card game,
and applies phonics skills in
a writing activity.

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ACTIVITIES
How can I show my student Answer

how letters relate to sounds?

A demonstration of one-on-one
phonics instruction showing
several different techniques
for teaching the relationship
between letters and sounds.

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DIVERSE LEARNING NEEDS
Study Guide
The following web resources
include
–an explanation of how brain
research increases
understanding of diverse
learning needs
–ideas for motivating diverse
learners
–lessons for English language
learners
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DIVERSE LEARNING NEEDS
How can I understand diverse Answer

learning needs?

This chapter shows how

familiarity with brain
research can increase
understanding of
students' learning
needs.

Rose, D. H. & Meyer, A. (2002). Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for
learning. CAST. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Retrieved on Sept. 8,
2005, from http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/.
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DIVERSE LEARNING NEEDS
How can I motivate a child Answer

with diverse learning needs?

Interviews from educational experts:

– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Ph.D., psychologist and author of the book,
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
– Howard Gardner
professor of education at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education and originator of
the theory of multiple intelligences
– Seymour Papert
renowned expert on children’s learning and
computing
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DIVERSE LEARNING NEEDS
How can I help an English Answer

language learner?
This site shares ELL lesson plans
Week 1: Initial Assessment
• Pre-reading conversation
• Reading a wordless book
• Post-reading conversation
• Drawing/writing activity

Week 3: Predictable Pattern Books

• Picture walk
• Making predictions
• Reading a book
• Initial consonant card game

Week 6: Re-reading a familiar text and

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• Reading rhyming book
• More work with rhyming
DIVERSE LEARNING NEEDS
Can a child have high Answer

phonemic awareness with

poor comprehension?
Nanci Bell of Lindamood- Bell
explains the difference between
dyslexia and hyperlexia at the
IDA Conference, November
2004 in a presentation entitled
“The Role of Imagery and Verbal
Processing in Comprehension.”
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BALANCED READING
Study Guide

These web resources include

free download booklets on
balanced reading and lesson
plans on other reading elements.

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BALANCED READING
How can I balance reading Answer

elements?

A free electronic copy of Put Reading

First -- a balanced reading
program including
– phonological awareness
– phonics
– fluency
– vocabulary
– comprehension.
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BALANCED READING
Can I get more information Answer

about reading elements?

Free electronic booklets
From The Partnership for Reading through the National Institute
for Literacy (NIFL)
– Report of the National Reading Panel
– Put Reading First:
• Helping Your Child Learn to Read
• The Research Building Blocks
– Parent Reading Resources:
• A Child Becomes a Reader - K-3
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• A Child Becomes a Reader - Birth to Preschool
BALANCED READING
Where can I find lesson plans
on other reading elements?

Fluency Comprehension

Literacy Read
Engagement Aloud

Misc Shared
Reading
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BALANCED READING
How does phonemic Answer

awareness fit with state

standards?
Idaho State
Comprehensive Literacy
Plan outlining the
standards for phonemic
awareness and other
reading elements K-3.
Senator Larry Craig reads to students participating in the Time for
Literacy project to demonstrate his support.

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 Assessment:
Did you find the
answers?

You can help your

student sound out
new words
by increasing their
phonemic awareness
& use of phonics

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 Assessment
Rubric

You can help your

student sound out
new words

by increasing their
phonemic awareness.

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CREDITS

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