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#Advanced Phonemic Awareness (After)

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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
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
9.
  • Demonstrate
  • Advanced phonemic awareness skills
  • Spoken words
9a.
  • Add
  • Delete
  • Substitute
  • Phonemes
  • Produce
9b.
  • Delete
  • Initial sound
  • Initial blend
  • One-syllable base word
9c.
  • Prompting
  • Support
  • Delete
  • Medial sound
  • Final sound
  • Blends
  • One-syllable base word
9d.
  • Phoneme chaining
  • Addition
  • Deletion
  • Substitution
  • Resequencing of sounds
9e.
  • Prompting
  • Support
  • Reverse
  • Last
  • First
  • Sound
Knowledge:
9. Students know:
  • Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate the phonemes (sounds) in spoken words.
9a.
  • The meaning of the words add, delete, and substitute.
  • Spoken words can be manipulated (changed) by adding, deleting, or substituting sounds to produce a new word.
9b.
  • Initial means first or beginning sound.
  • A blend is made up of more than one sound.
9c.
  • Medial means the middle sound and final means the last sound.
  • A blend is made up of two or more sounds (phonemes).
9d.
  • Addition means add to, deletion means take away from, substitution means change, and resequencing means changes the order of.
  • Words can be manipulated by changing only one sound at a time.
9e.
  • Reverse means to change the sequence of sounds to an opposite order.
Skills:
9. Students are able to:
  • Identify individual phonemes in words and manipulate those sounds.
9a.
  • Produce new words by adding phonemes at the beginning, end, or middle of a spoken word made up of up to six phonemes.
  • For example, Say bell. Now say bell but add /t/ to end of bell. (belt)
  • Produce new words by deleting phonemes at the beginning, end, or middle of a spoken word made up of up to six phonemes.
  • For example, Say fin. Now say fin, but don't say /f/. (in)
  • Produce new words by substituting phonemes at the beginning, end, or middle of a spoken word made up of up to six phonemes.
  • For example, Say strap. Now say strap, but change /a/ to /i/. (strip)
9b.
  • Delete the initial (first) sound in a one-syllable base word with an initial blend.
  • For example, Say prank. Now say prank, but don't say /p/. (rank)
9c. With prompting and support,
  • Delete the medial (middle) sound in in a one syllable base word with a blend.
  • For example, Say snail. Now say snail, but don't say /n/. (sail).
  • Delete the final (last) sound in in a one syllable base word with a blend.
  • For example, Say wind. Now say wind, but don't say /d/. (win).
9d.
  • Change one sound in a word at a time using phoneme addition, deletion, and substitution to resequence sounds in a phoneme chain; for example, bit, bet, bat; sat, sit; pit, pat.
9e. With prompting and support,
  • Reverse sounds in word by saying the last sound first and the first sound last; for example, fine, knife; cat, tack; park, carp.
Understanding:
9. Students understand that:
  • Words are made up of one or more phonemes.
  • They can demonstrate advanced phonemic awareness skills by manipulating those phonemes through additions, deletions, reversals, and substitutions of phonemes.
  • Advanced phonemic awareness skills will help them improve their reading, spelling, and writing.
9a.
  • They can create new spoken words by manipulating the sounds in the words they hear through addition, deletion, and substitution of phonemes.
9b.
  • Blends are made of more than one sound, and they can delete the first sound to create a new word.
9c.
  • Blends are made of more than one sound, and they can delete the middle or last sound of a blend to create a new word.
9d.
  • They can demonstrate advanced phonemic awareness skills by changing one sound in a word to create a chain (or group of words).
  • Words can be manipulated by adding, deleting, substituting, and resequencing sounds.
9e.
  • Spoken words can be manipulated by reversing the first and last sounds.
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