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Effective Reading Instruction in the Elementary School Setting : September Topic~ Phonemic Awareness

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This month's topic is Effective Reading Instruction in the Elementary School Setting : Phonemic Awareness. For this reason, I wanted to share two of my latest products that you may find useful when teaching beginning sounds.

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Crystal 

Effective Reading Instruction in the Elementary School Setting : September Topic~ Phonemic Awareness

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Welcome everyone to this month's topic "Effective Reading Instruction in the Elementary School Setting : Phonemic Awareness." Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness is a child's ability to identify, isolate, and manipulate individual sounds of oral language. In this stage, a child is able to hear and learns to identify a given sound in a spoken word.  

 

For example:

"What is the beginning sound in the word ---?"

"What sound do you hear at the end of ---?"

 

In addition, children learn how to segment and blend sounds with phonemic awareness lessons. Throughout this month, I am going to post activities the will help support the teaching of phonemic awareness.

 

Below are activities to use with phonemic awareness lessons: 

Reading Rockets 

This is a great website that is full of information and reading activities.

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  Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

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  ( I do not own these videos. These YouTube video have ads before the video begins.)

 Other Great Resources

Sounds Boxes

Beginning Sounds

 

It's your turn. How do you teach phonemic awareness?  I can't wait to hear from you!

Happy September!

Crystal

 

 

 

 

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I Like Kids' Books and I Can Not Lie ~Linky Party

I do love kids books! For this reason, I have teamed up with Primary Polka Dots  and friends to share some of my favorite books to read with children. Trying to narrow the book selection down for this post has been very difficult, but I really think I have some great ones to share.

Goodnight Moon

To begin, I have to share a book that my six month old daughter absolutely loves! Her little face lights up every time I pick the book up and she loves to hold it while I read it to her. This book is Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. This book is full of rhymes and is a great picture book to read to little ones as a bedtime story. 

 

Also, it is a great book to read when you are teaching rhyming words. This would be a great book to read to students when modeling the "Rhyming Generation Strategy." You can learn more about this strategy, rhyming freebies, and much more on my post about "Effective Reading Instruction in the Elementary School Setting : Phonological Awareness vs. Phonemic Awareness."

 What about an adorable video to watch with the kiddos too? ~

Goodnight Moon 

If You Give a ...

Recently, I was able to purchase some of the books along with the stuffed animals at a local Kohl's store. (The books and stuffed animals were only $5.00 a piece.) They have a program called Kohl's Cares and 100% of the net profit from the sales from these items go towards kids' health and education initiatives. Read more at  
http://www.kohls.com/sale-event/kohl-s-cares.jsp

 I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Laura Numeroff's If You Give A ... series of books. These books are funny and children love to read them again and again.

Laura Numeroff actually created a video where she is reading the book. What a fun way to bring the book to life!

These stories are a great way to teach students about cause and effect too.

For More Information Read This Blog Hop Post

 For More Information Read This Blog Hop Post

Be sure to visit Laura Numeroff 's website for more information on how to purchase these great books!

https://lauranumeroff.com/

Curious George 

 

Finally, this last picture book is about a little monkey that loves to have great adventures ~ Curious George. The Curious George series was one that I can remember going to my elementary school library and checking out different books week after week. I found George's adventures exciting and so funny. The best part is that my daughter and students  seem to love him as much as I did! All of these books are a great way to practice all of the basic story elements: characters, setting, problem and solution.

Be sure to visit http://www.curiousgeorge.com/

 

In closing, I am having a Giveaway for one of my Reading Response Booklets products. This product would be a great comprehension resource to go along with any pictures books. If you haven't already be sure to enter this Giveaway. Winners will be announced August 1, 2015.

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These are just a few of my favorite books. I hope you enjoyed my fun post about these children's picture books. Please follow me to get updates on my Literacy Series: Effective Reading Instruction in the Elementary School Setting, Freebies, Giveaways, and Much, Much, More.

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Crystal