Name



Shelby Youngworth

Edok #1

Summer 2012

Dr. Jeanie Cozens

APA reference

Manyak, P.C. (2008). Phonemes in use: Multiple activities for a critical process. The Reading Teacher, 61(8), 659–662

Central Theme

This article discusses how critical phonemic awareness is in the development of beginning reading. The author borrowed, adapted, and invented five activities that focus on segmenting and blending phonemes during reading and writing words. These activities help children apply phonemic awareness when they read and write.

Main Ideas

1. Phonemic awareness is a crucial part of beginning reading and contributes to children’s understanding of the alphabetic principle. This helps children to blend letter sounds while they decode words, learn sight words, and spell phonetically.

2. Several activities that focus on segmenting and blending phonemes during reading and writing words help children apply phonemic awareness when they read and write.

3. The Beginning-Middle-End activity the teacher places three- or four- letter words face down in a pocket chart and she tells the students the word. The teacher and students then sing a short song about begging, middle, and end to the tune of “Are You Sleeping, Brother John?” After they sing the song, a student comes up to the pocket chart and picks if the sound is in the begging, middle, or end and turns around the card. The process is then repeated.

4. Word Mapping is an activity that involves the use of high-frequency words. The teacher announces the high-frequency word that the students will map and then they segment the word together, counting the phonemes on their fingers. The teacher writes the number of phonemes on the chart and then writes the word and has the students count the letters. That number is then added to the chart. The students have to also explain why on the chart.

Author’s Conclusion

The authors concluded that each of the activities described in the article encourages students to use phonemic awareness during reading and writing words. When the activities are used together as part of a study block or throughout the day, they offer children several opportunities to develop phonemic awareness in beginning reading.

Evaluation

I thought that this article provided a lot of insight into phonemic awareness and some activities that teachers can do with their students to help them become better readers and writers. Phonemic awareness is very critical in the development of beginning reading and if children do not become skilled in phonemic awareness and recognizing phonemes in reading and writing words then they will not become skilled readers and writers. I know that I will use the activities described in this article when I become a teacher so that I can help my students become proficient in phonemic awareness.

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