Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness is Back!
Parents Want to Know
MLs or ELs
Early Childhood Classroom
100

First stage/level of phonological awareness is _______.

Rhyming and alliteration.

100

What is a strategy for blending sounds into words?

Mystery words, saying sounds, having students say words and blend sounds.

100

Name a quick and easy strategy parents can use.

It's.......and it works because...

Describe how to do it! 

100

Name an easy and effective strategy to support ELs in the classroom.

It's...and it works because...

Describe it fully.

100

Every early childhood classroom should have...

....because...

200

Second stage/level of phonological awareness is _______.

Sentence segmentation

200

What is a strategy for segmenting words into sounds? 

Elkonin boxes, orthographic mapping,  tap it out.

200

Name another strategy parents can use.

It's....and it works because...

Describe how to do it! 

200

Name another effective strategy to support ELs in the classroom.

It's...and it works because...

Describe it fully! 

200

Every early childhood classroom should also have...

...because...

300

Third stage/level of phonological awareness is _______.

Syllables: Segmenting and Blending

300

What is a strategy for deleting, adding, or substituting sounds in words? 

Ask them to say a word and change or delete the onset. "Say car, drop the /c/ and change it to /f/."


300

Name another strategy parents can use to support language and/or literacy. 

It's...and it works because...

Describe how to do it! 

300

Name another method or approach to support ELs or MLs.

It's...and it works because...

Describe it well!

300

What is an instructional practice every early childhood teacher might want to include daily/regularly?

....is the practice and it's effective because...

400

Fourth stage/level of phonological awareness is _______.

Onset and rimes: Blending and Segmenting

400

How could you poem of the week to teach a skill from the phonological awareness stages (remember, PA requires no text, so you could pick a word from the poem and...)

...find rhyming words not in the poem. 

You could also...

400

Think of a common activity caregivers may do with children.  How can they make it a rich language and/or literacy experience for their child? 

Examples...?

400

What is something teachers should NOT do when it comes to teaching ELs? 

It's.... and it's wrong because...

Describe this well. 

400

What is an instructional practice every early childhood teacher might want to include daily/regularly?

...is the practice and it's effective because...

500

Fifith stage/level of phonological awareness is _______.

Phonemic awareness

500

How could you use a read-aloud to support phonological awareness? 

Repeat a sentence, and have them count out the words. 

Say a word from the book, and have them find a rhyming word. 



500

Consider the reading, videos, and work you've done this semester in this class. What are three pieces of advice you would give parents of young children? 

1.

2.

3.

500
How can teachers apply asset-based teaching when working with ELs?

They can...because...

500

Name 3 assessments you may use in an early childhood classroom.

1.

2.

3.

What does each one assess...what does  it tell you?