Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum

by Marilyn Jager Adams, Barbara R. Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, Terri Beeler

Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness - now known to be an important step to a child's early reading acquisition - this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings.

With a developmental sequence of activities that follows a school year calendar, teachers can chose from a range of activities for their preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade classrooms. Plus, the curriculum includes an easy-to-use assessment test for screening up to 15 children at a time. This assessment not only helps to objectively estimate the general skill level of the class and identify children who may need additional testing but may also be repeated every 1-2 months to monitor progress. All children benefit because the curriculum accommodates individualized learning and teaching styles.

Here is everything a teacher needs:

Teaching objectives

Lesson plans and sample scripts

Activity adaptations

Troubleshooting guidelines

Suggested kindergarten and first-grade schedules

Informal, group screening

Guidelines for interpreting assessment test results

Recommendations for further assessment

An appendix of advanced language games

Educators will welcome this playful curricular supplement as an effective way to improve listening skills and foster essential preliteracy skills.