ALEX Learning Activity

#Advanced Phonemic Awareness (After)

A Learning Activity is a strategy a teacher chooses to actively engage students in learning a concept or skill using a digital tool/resource.

  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: LaVonda Senn
System:Dothan City
School:Girard Middle School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2966
Title:
#Advanced Phonemic Awareness (After)
Digital Tool/Resource:
List of Words for Chaining
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

The purpose of this “After” activity is to assess students' ability to manipulate phonemes through an activity called chaining. This activity supports students in building their articulation and distinguishing between the initial, medial, and final sounds in words. Chaining allows students to warm up their brains and practice hearing, seeing, and moving letters around to recognize patterns and repetition in language that will support their phonological and phonemic awareness. Using this as an assessment tool is a great way to identify students that have not fully mastered substitutions, deletions, and additions.  

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.

  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
9. Demonstrate advanced phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

a. Add, delete, and substitute phonemes at the beginning, end, or middle of a spoken word made up of up to six phonemes and produce the resulting word.

Examples:
Addition - Say bell. Now say bell, but add /t/ to the end of bell. (belt)
Addition - Say block. Now say block, but add /t/ to the end of block. (blocked)
Deletion - Say fin. Now say fin, but don't say /f/. (in)
Deletion - Say range. Now say range, but don't say /j/. (rain)
Substitution - Say strap. Now say strap, but change /a/ to /i/. (strip)
Substitution - Say bleed. Now say bleed, but change the /ē/ to /ā/. (blade)

b. Delete the initial sound in an initial blend in a one-syllable base word.

Example: Say prank. Now say prank, but don't say /p/ . (rank)

c. With prompting and support, delete the medial and final sounds in blends in one syllable base words.

Examples: Say snail. Now say snail, but don't say /n/. (sail)
Say wind. Now say wind, but don't say /d/. (win)

d. Apply phoneme chaining that changes only one sound at a time to show addition, deletion, substitution, and resequencing of sounds from one word to the next.

Examples: bit, bet, bat; sat, sit; pit, pat

e. With prompting and support, reverse sounds within a word by saying the last sound first and the first sound last.

Examples: fine, knife; cat, tack; park, carp
Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to apply phoneme chaining that changes only one sound at a time to show addition, deletion, substitution, and resequencing from one word to the next. 

  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:

This activity provides a method to check for each student's understanding of phoneme chaining, therefore, this activity is best completed with each student individually.

The teacher should print out a copy of the digital tool. Place counters in front of the child. Touch each counter in turn saying the sounds of the first word. Ask the child to blend the word. Then move one counter and replace it with a new counter while telling the child the new sound. Ask them to blend the new word. Repeat for each word on the list. Digraphs such as ‘QU’, ‘SH’, ‘CH’, ‘TH’, and ‘NG’ are treated as sounds, not letters.

The teacher will move down the list of words in numerical order. The teacher can complete all 25 words, or stop after a particular number.

Assessment Strategies:

The teacher should evaluate student mastery of the standard while completing the phoneme chaining activity mentioned above. If desired, the teacher can use this second list of words to assess student understanding.


Advanced Preparation:

The teacher will need to print the document with the word lists. The teacher will need to secure counters (in different colors, if desired) for the activity.

If review is needed, the students will practice their phonemic awareness using this slideshow, Advanced Phonemic Awareness Skills, or this document, Phonemic Awareness Sound Chaining Procedures.

Variation Tips (optional):

Intervention: The teacher should identify the specific phonemic awareness skill the student is struggling with (addition, deleting, substitution, or resequencing) and model the skill in isolation (rather than in a word chain). For example, if a student is struggling with substituting the vowel sound in the middle of the word (i.e. top to tap) the teacher should model this skill with other words (i.e. bat to bot, hot to hat, hot to hit, etc.).

Extension/Expansion: Ask gifted students to make lists of words with four or five letters and replace the initial, medial, and final sounds. Additionally, they can study the morphology of those words to understand how some letters and sounds work when you change the endings and some do not. 

Notes or Recommendations (optional):
  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: Additions, Chaining, Deletions, Phonemic Manipulation, Substitutions