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Teaching phonological awareness and phonics to young learners
Consultant: Martha Ramirez
Pearson Colombia
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
 44 sounds
- 24 consonants
Voiced pie today kind very mother zoo measure jump my
night sing love red win you
Unvoiced Bob do good feet think see sheep hello church
- 12 vowels
Short sheep boot bird fork calm
Long ship put bed better cat cut Hot
- 8 diphthongs
real make boy Hello
hi how Tour (British) Where (British)
READING PROCESS
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•Perceptive Process:Recognize signsandassignmeaning
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•Lexical Process:Attributesoundstoletters
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•Syntacticprocess:Assignmeaningtowords
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•SemanticProcess:Comprehendsentences
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•TextProcess:Understandandinferparagraphsandtexts

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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
Understandingthatlanguage iscomposedof sentences,thesecanbe dividedintowords,and
wordscan be dividedinsyllables.
 Rhyme  Alliteration  Word segmentation  Syllable segmentation  onset+rime
PHONEMIC AWARENESS
Understandingthatwordscan be dividedinsounds(phonemes).
 Sound matching  Sound isolation  Blending  Segmentation  Manipulation
PHONICS
Teachingsound-lettercorrespondences.
 Blending – cues / sound out  Rhyming  Reading/rereading
ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE
 Environmental print
 Children’snames
 AlphabetBooks
 Songs
 Games
 Word wall
FIND LINKS AND WORKHEETS:
 Connectwordsto actions
 Do hands-onactivities withreadings
 Associate wordstochildren’scontexts
 Connectvocabularytopreviousreadings
 Recycle
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Bennet-Armistead,V.&Duke,N.& Moses,A. (2005) Literacy andthe YoungestLearner.Best
PracticesforEducators of ChildrenfromBirthto5. Scholastic.
Christie,J.F.,Enz,B., & Vukelich,C.(2011). Teaching languageand literacy:Preschoolthrough the
elementary grades (4thEd.). Reading,MA: AddisonWesley/LongmanPublishingCompany.
Cunningham,P.M.& Cunningham,J.W.(2002).In A.E.Farstrup & S.J.Samuels(Eds.),What
ResearchHas to Say AboutReadingInstruction(3rded.,pp.87–109). Used withpermissionof the
International ReadingAssociationinhttp://www-
tc.pbs.org/teacherline/courses/rdla155/pdfs/c2s3_7whatweknow.pdf
Henry,M. K. (2003) UnlockingLiteracy:Effective DecodingandSpellingInstruction.Maryland:Paul
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Lopez,A.and Sosa-Ortiz,Y.(2004) Developingemergingbiliteracy:Guidingprinciplesfor
instruction.ColombianAppliedLinguisticsJournal.No.6,7 – 22.
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TEACHING RESOURCES, LINKS AND WORKHEETS:
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