This document provides a list of words for phonemic awareness instruction, with words carefully organized by number of sounds and stop/continuant sounds.
Use these diagnostic assessments to understand which phoneme isolation skills need instruction.
Curious to learn more about the nature of English phonemes and their production? This handout from the Colorado Department of Education unpacks consonant and vowel sounds.
Shira Naftel models and explains how phonemes are articulated in this Reading League video.
Susan Robison helps her students practice isolating ending sounds, or phonemes, using a roller coaster motion to help them hear all the sounds in a word.
Dr. Susan Brady summarizes what we know about effective phonemic awareness instruction in this webinar.
This is a short assessment to assess students’ mastery of phoneme segmenting and blending.
In this brief video, Jennifer Rogers works with her students on blending sounds into words.
This video shows a short instructional routine for teaching students to blend sounds.
This Reading Rockets article provides materials and resources for several activities to teach blending and segmenting. The authors provide research that supports the use of each of these activities.
IDA Ontario webinar outlining 5 key changes that educators can make in their Kindergarten classroom.
This IDA Ontario webinar focuses on how to implement a Structured Literacy Block in Grade One by breaking down the learning day into three different sections.
