9. What challenges do children face while
reading?
■ Most of the children read well.
■ However, there was always a group of children
who had problems remembering words.They
did not pick up letter sounds correctly.
10. ■It was then decided to
teach sounds first to see if
sounds before letter could
work better.This proved
much of a success than
expected as a whole.
12. It made reading much easy.
Children found it much easier
to read and write when they
understood the sound system
of the language before the
orthography.
13. Phoneme
■It is a member of the smallest
unit of speech that serve to
distinguish one utterance from
another in a language or a
dialect.
14. Phonemic Awareness
■ It refers to the ability to hear and manipulate
sounds in words.
■ It is auditory
■ It is not phonics
■ It does not involve prints
■ It is also referred to as Reading Readiness
15. What is Phonemic
Awareness?
It is the ability to listen and
manipulate phonemes (sounds)
which are the smallest part of a
spoken language.
16. Although there are 26
letters in the English
Alphabet System but there
are approximately 42
sound units (phonemes)
19. DISCRIMINATING PHONEMES
■Students listen to determine if two
words begin or end with the same
sound
Words beginning with ‘l’ Words ending with /m/
lord Room
land gum
Late same
21. Syllable
a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound,
with or without surrounding consonants, forming
the whole or a part of a word.
Example
Mono syllabic Bi syllabic Poly syllabic
sun Water advantage
22. Students clap the number of syllables in
a word
Mono syllabic Di syllabic Tri syllabic
run Master cabinet
bit Facing deliver
bone Thirty injury
30. ■It is the ability to break up words into
individual sounds. It can further be
categorized into :
■First sound isolation
■Middle sound isolation
■Final sound isolation
■Complete sound isolation
31. First sound isolation
Teacher: I will say a word and you have to tell me the
first sound.
bus Soul
bid Fear
Cat Base
Sap Yard
39. The ability to add,
delete and substitute
sounds or syllables
40. Deleting
■Students listen to words and then say them
out first with out the first syllable
Example:
■ Sand becomes and (phonemic deletion)
■ Baseball becomes ball (syllabic deletion)
41. Adding
■ Student listen to words and add syllables or sounds
Example
Add ‘s’ as the beginning sound
to the following words
un
trong
torm
tand