UA: Phonological Awareness

Struggling readers

• Focus on mastery of key skills to support reading foundation, such as segmenting and oral blending

• Pre Teach and reteach skills, during differentiated instruction

• Provide additional practice using hands-on methods for phoneme counting and segmenting 

• Elkinon boxes are a great strategy here, pairing hands on with the visual to help grasp the concept

students with special needs

• Focus on mastery of key skills to support reading foundation, such as segmentaing and oral blending

• Pre Teach and reteach skills, during differentiated instruction

• Provide additional practice using various methods such as visuals, tactile, auditory and kinesthetic

English Learners and speakers of nonstandard English

• Pre Teach phonemes that are not in primary language

• Use correct sentence of phone instruction in order to prevent confusion

• Differentiate instruction for letters that are similar in sound

advanced learners

• Increase the pace of phonemic awareness instruction

• Blend phonemic awareness and phonics lessons

• Incorporate the reading of simple texts and phonetic writing

• Increase the pace of instruction not the quantity givve them higher order work