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Phoneme Phun - Learning and Playing with Letters, Sounds, and Words: An Early Childhood Best Practice Brief

Resource Type:
Research and Reference
Typical Ages:
3-5
Topics:
Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Alphabet Knowledge, Hearing Sounds, Phonics, Children's Literature, Literary Text/Fiction, Poetry, Songs and Rhymes, Reading to Children, Reading with Children, Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Songs and Poems
Keywords:
using read alouds, ABC Books, Keep Books, rhyming units, syllables, phonologic awareness, nursery rhymes, mother goose, poetry

In Phoneme Phun, the eleventh best practice brief in the Early Childhood Building Blocks series, Pat Scharer, a professor at the Ohio State University , offers many wonderful strategies for teachers to use as they help children understand fundamental concepts of phonemic awareness. She also lists many picture books for young children that support playing with nursery rhymes, songs, stories, alliteration, rhyme, the alphabet and more.

There are even more books that emphasize phonemic awareness in the Early childhood Bookshelf on the REC website. Look for "Literacy Begins with Rhythm, Rhyme, and Song," and "Playing with Words: Poetry in Preschool, Phonemic Awareness." (author/nmb).

Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition and Fluency for Early Childhood
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
1.
Identify matching sounds and recognize rhymes in familiar stories, poems, songs and words (e.g., cat/hat, dog/frog).
2.
Hear sounds in words by isolating the syllables of a word using snapping, clapping or rhythmic movement (e.g., cat, ap-ple).
3.
Differentiate between sounds that are the same and different (e.g., environmental sounds, animal sounds, phonemes).
4.
Recognize when words share phonemes (sounds) and repeat the common phoneme (e.g., /b/ as in Bob, ball, baby; /t/ as in Matt, kite, boat).
Communication: Oral and Visual Early Childhood
Listening and Viewing
1.
Attend to speakers, stories, poems and songs.
Speaking Applications
7.
Participate in the recitation of books, poems, chants, songs and nursery rhymes (e.g., Little Miss Muffet).
Publisher
ORC
Record Created
7/21/2008 by web@ohiorc.org
Last Updated
12/7/2010 by cbuckley
 
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