1 Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. Children's literature provides an excellent framework for teaching decoding and spelling.... 2 Word Wizards: Students Making Words Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity in which students learn how to look for patterns in words and make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters. The use of children's literature provides an excellent framework for teaching decoding and spelling.... 3 Making and Writing Words Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–3 Professional Commentary: Making and Writing Words is a teacher guided word study activity. A variation of the making words activities developed by Patricia Cunningham, this resource provides regular opportunities for students to learn about the spelling structure of words in order to improve word recognition skills.... 4 Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students' development in reading and writing is supported when they have an active interest their learning. This lesson supports students' exploration of language and writing skills as they read and discuss poetry.... 5 Phonemic Awareness Assessment - Kindergarten Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This phonemic awareness assessment is excerpted from Reading and Writing Grade by Grade: New Standards, National Center on Education and the Economy and the University of Pittsburgh (1998). It is designed to be given to young children up to three times during the school year. The assessment includes: 1) teacher dialogue with examples for the child, 2) the vocabulary used for assessment, and 3) a form to record and track progress. The concepts tested are: rhyming words, isolating initial consonants, isolating ending consonants, and blending separately spoken phonemes. (author/jlkrause) ... 6 Phoneme Awareness Assessment Tools Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–1 Professional Commentary: This assessment resource for phonemic awareness includes four assessments designed to be used by classroom teachers. The assessments include: 1) Recognizing Rhyme, 2) Isolating Beginning Sounds, 3) Isolating Final Sounds, and 4) Phoneme Blending. All assessments include easy-to-follow teacher directions. The Recognizing Rhyme Assessment and the Phoneme Blending Assessment also include a QuickTime video clip of a demonstration of the assessment with children. These assessments are designed for use with children individually and throughout the school year to inform teachers using the assess-plan-teach cycle. (author/jlkrause) ... 7 Phoneme Segmentation Assessment : Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This resource, supported by the Los Angeles County Office of Education, features a video demonstration of the Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation. The video provides a step-by-step model for administering the Yopp-Singer Test.... 8 Informal Reading Assessments: Examples Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–1 Professional Commentary: This resource offers examples of seven informal reading assessments that are designed for one-on-one administration with young children in the classroom. The brief assessments include: concepts of print, rhyming, identifying initial sounds, blending words, phoneme segmentation, phoneme manipulation, and phoneme deletion. Six of the seven assessments are tasks that assess phonemic awareness. Teacher directions and assessment forms are also included. (author/jlkrause)... 9 Phonemic Awareness: Watch & Learn Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This professional resource includes four brief video clips from the Reading Rockets' PBS television series, Launching Young Readers. The videos take a variety of perspectives including: understanding why it may be difficult for children to develop phonemic awareness, working to develop phonemic awareness with second language learners, and how one-on-one teaching can benefit struggling readers. These videos can be viewed online or downloaded. (author/jlkrause)... 10 Diphthongs and Other Vowels Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: Dipthongs and other vowels are the focus of this word sort from the book, Words Their Way: Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. This word sort is good for students who have an understanding of long vowels. Students first sort out words that are alike in the middle, and then add the words to their columns that sound and look like the words they have sorted. This activity helps develop and understanding of these within-word vowel patterns. (author/jlkrause)... |