Suggestions and Tips
Governmental Findings
PA Skills
Statistics (within 10%)
Class Activities
100
How long should phonics instruction be administered each day?
What is 10-30 minutes
100
The ability of a person to focus on and manipulate phonemes in spoken word
What is phonemic awareness
100
The ability to capture the meaning of unfamiliar words by translating groups of letters back into the sounds that they represent
What is decoding
100
Percentage of students whose reading ability improved
What is 86%
100
An activity that utilizes rhyme to teach phonemic awareness
(Multiple Answers) What is Complete the Sentence, Rhyme in Song, Nonsense Word Game
200
What should teachers associate with letter sounds to improve their students ability to remember?
What are pictures
200
The group of research teams that have been researching phonemic awareness since 1997
What is the National Reading Panel
200
Pulling together individual sounds or syllables within words
What is blending
200
Percentage of at-risk-readers whose reading ability improved
What is 95%
200
An activity that utilizes syllable manipulation to teach phonemic awareness
(Multiple Answers) What is Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again, Teacher May We?
300
In what size group is phonemic awareness instruction most effective?
What is in a small group
300
Phonemic awareness instruction is most effective with these grades
What are pre-K through 2nd grade
300
Breaking down words into individual sounds or syllables
What is segmenting
300
Percentage of students who retained their phonemic awareness skills nine years after initial instruction
What is 73%
300
An activity that utilizes onset-rhyme to teach phonemic awareness
(Multiple Answers) What is Is this a Word?, Going on a Word Hunt, Mail a Package
400
What is the best phonemic awareness task to begin your instruction with?
What is sound comparison
400
Phonemic awareness scored higher than any other type of phonics instruction in these four categories of language arts and reading
What are decoding, comprehension, spelling, and writing
400
Eliminating a phoneme from a word to change its pronunciation
What is deletion
400
Percentage of students whose decoding ability improved
What is 56%
400
An activity that utilizes phoneme manipulation to teach phonemic awareness
(Multiple Answers) What is Letter-Sound Bingo, Find Your Partners
500
When using oral phonemic awareness instruction, students benefit from the use of these
What are auditory, visual, and tactile cues
500
Phonemic awareness instruction has been deemed the most effective reading instruction for this group of students
What are at-risk-readers (especially ELL)
500
The process or activity of writing or naming the letters of a word
What is spelling
500
Percent increase of phonemic awareness abilities in preschoolers after instruction
What is 237%
500
An activity that utilizes phoneme identification to teach phonemic awareness
(Multiple Answers) What is I Spy, Dominoes
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