Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in spoken words. It involves six basic components: rhyming, sound isolation, segmentation, deletion, substitution, and blending. Developing phonemic awareness is an important skill for students to learn early on as it prepares them for reading. Phonemic awareness is typically taught in kindergarten and first grade.

1. WHAT IS PHONEMIC AWARENESS?
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, move or change sounds, called phonemes,
in spoken words. Phonemic awareness is an important basic skill that gets students ready to
develop into readers. Phonemic awareness is usually taught during kindergarten and
beginning first grade. Phonemic awareness includes six basic components.
1. Rhyming: Identifying words that rhyme or producing words that rhyme such as, “hat” and
“pat” or, “car” and “far.”

2. WHAT IS PHONEMIC AWARENESS?
2. Isolation: Identifying a specific sound in a word such as, “What is the beginning sound in the
‘word ball’?” /b/. (Please note that the letter between slashes such as /b/ represents the sound the
letter “b” makes when spoken.) Sound isolation for ending or middle sounds is more difficult, but
children also need to be able to identify these sounds.
For example: “What is the ending sound in the word ‘tap’?” Answer: /p/. Or, “What is the middle
sound in ‘cup’?” Answer: /u/.
3. Segmentation: Pulling apart the sounds in a word in order.
For example: “What sounds do you hear in the word ‘lip’?” Answer: /l/ /i/ /p/.

3. WHAT IS PHONEMIC AWARENESS?
4. Deletion: Taking a sound off of a spoken word such as, “Say the word ‘sit’ without the /s/.”
Answer: “it.”
5. Substitution: Changing a sound in a word to another sound.
For example: “My word is ‘pin.’ Change the /p/ to /w/. What is the new word?” Answer: “win.”
6. Blending: Putting together sounds to make a word. For example: “Here are the sounds in a word
/m/ /a/ /t/. What is the word?” Answer: “mat.”

4. AESOP'S FABLES
(GENRE : LITERARY AND NARRATIVE – NARRATIVE TEXTS)
FIRST ACTIVITY: PHONEMIC AWARENESS (The Wheel Game: responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration
during word play and Syllable awareness of the sounds m, s and f).
SECOND ACTIVITY: VOCABULARY (Reading THE MAN AND THE SERPENT and THE FOX AND THE MASK to
identify words with the letters m, s and f).

5. FIRST ACTIVITY: The
Wheel Game
Reading a tongue twister
Tongue twisters starting with m:
- Maggie the messy mouse made mini-muffins.
- Mommy makes more marvelous moves!
- Morris Musselbrook made a mushy mango and mandarin
mess.

6. FIRST ACTIVITY: The
Wheel Game
Reading a tongue twister
Tongue twisters starting with f:
- Freddie Fathington flew far for French frankfurters.
- If Freaky Fred found fifty feet of fruit and fed forty feet to his
friend frank how many feet of fruit did Freaky Fred find?

7. FIRST ACTIVITY: The
Wheel Game
Reading a tongue twister
Tongue twisters starting with s:
- Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
- Seven slick slimy snakes slowly sliding southward.

8. FIRST ACTIVITY:
The Wheel Game
Clap once for each syllable in the word
son Serpent so several
Fox Mask face frightened

9. FIRST ACTIVITY:
Sounds M, S AND F
Make the sound
of...

10. FIRST ACTIVITY
Make the sound of the
letter Mm and say the
following words...

11. FIRST ACTIVITY
Make the sound of the
letter Ss and say the
following words...

12. FIRST ACTIVITY
Make the sound of the
letter Ff and say the
following words...

13. SECOND
ACTIVITY: Reading
The Man and the Serpent
A Countryman's son by accident trod upon a Serpent's tail,
which turned and bit him so that he died. The father in a rage
got his axe, and pursuing the Serpent, cut off part of its tail.
So the Serpent in revenge began stinging several of the
Farmer's cattle and caused him severe loss. Well, the Farmer
thought it best to make it up with the Serpent, and brought
food and honey to the mouth of its lair, and said to it: "Let's
forget and forgive; perhaps you were right to punish my son,
and take vengeance on my cattle, but surely I was right in
trying to revenge him; now that we are both satisfied why
should not we be friends again?" "No, no," said the Serpent;
"take away your gifts; you can never forget the death of your
son, nor I the loss of my tail."
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Aesop's Fables

14. SECOND
ACTIVITY: Reading
The Fox and the Mask
A Fox had by some means got into the store-room
of a theatre. Suddenly he observed a face glaring
down on him and began to be very frightened; but
looking more closely he found it was only a Mask
such as actors use to put over their face. "Ah," said
the Fox, "you look very fine; it is a pity you have not
got any brains."
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop's Fables