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How do you teach Phonological awareness? 5 ways 1. Word Awareness (sentences are
made up of words, identify word boundaries)
2. Syllable Awareness (clapping, pronunciation slowly)
3. Word Blending (2 syllables and combine them to make a compound word Ex. Cow+boy)
4. Syllable Blending (blend 2 syllable into a word Ex. Sis+ter sister)
5. Onset and rimes
How do you assess phonemic awareness? Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation. 22
words - teacher says word, student segments it. If student doesn't do well, then go back and test
sound identity, sound isolation, sound blending, sound deletion, and sound substitution.
How do you assess phonological awareness? Test word awareness, syllable awareness,
word blending, syllable blending, and onset/rime blending.
How do you differentiate instruction in phonemic awareness? Struggling Readers and English
learners 1. Focus on key skills (Blending and segmentation)
,2. Reteach lacking skills (more modeling, simple tasks, additional scaffold, different teaching
material, change lesson pace)
3. Variety of examples to explain concepts and skills (realia)
4. Additional practice time (additional lessons)
English Learners: explicitly teach phonemes that don't exist in L1
What are the 4 Concepts About Print? 1. The relationships between spoken and written
english and that print carries meaning.
2. Sentence, word and letter representation
3. Directionality of English Language and tracking print
4. Book handling skills
CAP How do you know the student has awareness? 1. printed words carry meaning
2. illustrations help tell the story
CAP How do you know the student recognizes sentence, word, and letter representation?
They are able to know the difference between sentences words and letters. They use word
boundaries. They know where a sentence begins, ends, and recognize punctuation.
,CAP How do you know that students have directionality skills? In English students are
able to recognize that we start left to right and top to bottom. Also using the return sweep (at the
end of each line they sweep to the next time on the left)
CAP How do you know a student can book handle? They know how to hold the book
correctly and identify where the cover, title page, story starts, turn pages, and the back of the
book
How do you teach Concepts about Print? has to be taught explicitly
1. Read aloud (teacher reads the story & models)
2. Shared book reading experience
3. Language Approach (child dictates to adult &adult writes it down)
4. Environmental Print (printed messages they encounter everyday)
5. Print Rich Environment (read the room Ex. labels, captions, morning messages)
6. Explicit ( Direct teaching, student listens to the teacher read while reading big books)
CAP What happens in the shared book experience? We use big predictable books to read
aloud
, 1. Preread (introduce the books looking at the title, author and asking "what do you think the
book will be about?"
2. Pointing to every word being read and reading with prosody
3. Discussion talking before, during, after about their favortie characters
4. Rereading in small groups, pairs, or individually
What is an informal assessment for CAP? To test informally use a picture book with 3-4
lines and paper and pencil.
Test for:
1. Directionality
2. Word Boundaries
3. Print carries meaning
4. Student observations/annedotal notes
How do you differentiate teaching CAP? 1. Reteach key concepts like directionality
2. Learn language transfer from L1 if they have the same directionality as English
What is letter recognition? The teacher says the letter, the child points at it
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How do you teach Phonological awareness? 5 ways 1. Word Awareness (sentences are
made up of words, identify word boundaries)
2. Syllable Awareness (clapping, pronunciation slowly)
3. Word Blending (2 syllables and combine them to make a compound word Ex. Cow+boy)
4. Syllable Blending (blend 2 syllable into a word Ex. Sis+ter sister)
5. Onset and rimes
How do you assess phonemic awareness? Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation. 22
words - teacher says word, student segments it. If student doesn't do well, then go back and test
sound identity, sound isolation, sound blending, sound deletion, and sound substitution.
How do you assess phonological awareness? Test word awareness, syllable awareness,
word blending, syllable blending, and onset/rime blending.
How do you differentiate instruction in phonemic awareness? Struggling Readers and English
learners 1. Focus on key skills (Blending and segmentation)
,2. Reteach lacking skills (more modeling, simple tasks, additional scaffold, different teaching
material, change lesson pace)
3. Variety of examples to explain concepts and skills (realia)
4. Additional practice time (additional lessons)
English Learners: explicitly teach phonemes that don't exist in L1
What are the 4 Concepts About Print? 1. The relationships between spoken and written
english and that print carries meaning.
2. Sentence, word and letter representation
3. Directionality of English Language and tracking print
4. Book handling skills
CAP How do you know the student has awareness? 1. printed words carry meaning
2. illustrations help tell the story
CAP How do you know the student recognizes sentence, word, and letter representation?
They are able to know the difference between sentences words and letters. They use word
boundaries. They know where a sentence begins, ends, and recognize punctuation.
,CAP How do you know that students have directionality skills? In English students are
able to recognize that we start left to right and top to bottom. Also using the return sweep (at the
end of each line they sweep to the next time on the left)
CAP How do you know a student can book handle? They know how to hold the book
correctly and identify where the cover, title page, story starts, turn pages, and the back of the
book
How do you teach Concepts about Print? has to be taught explicitly
1. Read aloud (teacher reads the story & models)
2. Shared book reading experience
3. Language Approach (child dictates to adult &adult writes it down)
4. Environmental Print (printed messages they encounter everyday)
5. Print Rich Environment (read the room Ex. labels, captions, morning messages)
6. Explicit ( Direct teaching, student listens to the teacher read while reading big books)
CAP What happens in the shared book experience? We use big predictable books to read
aloud
, 1. Preread (introduce the books looking at the title, author and asking "what do you think the
book will be about?"
2. Pointing to every word being read and reading with prosody
3. Discussion talking before, during, after about their favortie characters
4. Rereading in small groups, pairs, or individually
What is an informal assessment for CAP? To test informally use a picture book with 3-4
lines and paper and pencil.
Test for:
1. Directionality
2. Word Boundaries
3. Print carries meaning
4. Student observations/annedotal notes
How do you differentiate teaching CAP? 1. Reteach key concepts like directionality
2. Learn language transfer from L1 if they have the same directionality as English
What is letter recognition? The teacher says the letter, the child points at it
