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Teaching Phonological Awareness


  1. Introduction to Teaching Phonological Awareness

    1. The problem

    2. What we've learned

    3. Research-based rationale for addressing phonological awareness

    4. Overview of lesson

  2. Objectives of Lesson (4:05)

    1. To explain concepts and roles related to phonological awareness

    2. To explain normal developmental course for phonological awareness.

    3. To discuss sound comparison, sound synthesis, and sound analysis

    4. To discuss instructional considerations

  3. Concepts Associated with Phonological Awareness (5:50)

    1. Phonological awareness

    2. Phonemic awareness

    3. Movement of mouth when producing individual phonemes

    4. Explicit instruction about sound production

    5. Automaticity

    6. Benefits for beginning readers
      1. understanding of alphabetic principle
      2. noticing regular ways that letters represent sounds
      3. approaching sounding out unknown words

    7. Complications for beginning readers
      1. 26 letters, 250+ graphemes, 39-45 phonemes
      2. over one million words
      3. impossibe to memorize

  4. Research-Based Activities to Strengthen Phonological Awareness (12:00)

    1. Instructional steps

    2. Sound comparisons (13:30)

    3. Sound synthesis (22:12)

    4. Sound analysis (33:00)

  5. Dimensions that Contribute to Phonological Difficulty (45:00)

    1. Size of sound unit

    2. Number of sound units

    3. Position of sound unit

    4. Phonological characteristics of phonemes

  6. Key Instructional Considerations for Group Responses during Instruction (50:00)

    1. Two-thirds should be group responses

    2. Use when answers are short and the same

    3. Practice

    4. Monitor students

  7. Lesson Review (52:00)


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