Project 5.2.4: Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching Phonological and ...
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t REL
APPALACHIA
Regional Educational Laboratory
At SRI International
August 6, 2019
Project 5.2.4: Evidence-Based Practices for
Teaching Phonological and Phonemic
Awareness
Regional Educational Laboratory ¡ª Appalachia
SRI International
Stephanie Nunn, Project Lead
Sara Rutherford-Quach, Project Member
Victoria Schaefer, Task 5 Lead
Deborah Jonas, Ph.D.
Director, REL Appalachia
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Contents
Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 3
The importance of phonological and phonemic awareness .......................................................... 4
Teaching and supporting phonological and phonemic awareness ................................................ 5
Recognizing and manipulating segments of sound ..................................................................... 6
Segmenting Syllables: Instructional Activities and Models ...................................................... 7
Identifying Onset and Rime: Instructional Activities and Models ............................................ 8
Identifying letter-sound relations................................................................................................ 8
Identifying Letter-Sound Relations: Instructional Activities and Models................................. 9
Linking letter-sound relationships with phonemic awareness.................................................. 10
Word-Building: Instructional Activities and Models............................................................... 10
Helping students who struggle .................................................................................................. 11
References .................................................................................................................................... 13
Evidence-Based Practices for
Teaching Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Overview
During the 2018/19 school year the Goochland County Public Schools (GCPS) technical staff
analyzed grade 3 students¡¯ reading proficiency with the support of Regional Educational
Laboratory ¨C Appalachia (REL AP) researchers. One set of these analyses showed associations
between students¡¯ phonological awareness in grade 1 and their grade 3 reading proficiency.
Specifically, students who had higher scores on a measure of phonological awareness in grade 1
(a score of 11 or higher on PALS-1 Spelling) were more likely to pass the grade 3 Standards of
Learning reading assessment (71 percent pass). These results prompted GCPS instructional
coaches to seek additional information from REL AP researchers about phonological and
phonemic awareness to inform their ongoing professional development for K¨C3 teachers. To
support the request, this memo describes the importance of these skills and evidence-based
instructional approaches in supporting students¡¯ development of phonological and phonemic
awareness. GCPS can use this information in professional development planning, workshop
delivery, and follow-up coaching for K¨C3 teachers.
Given the results of the analyses of GCPS student data, it is appropriate for kindergarten
teachers to start at the beginning of the developmental trajectory using the instructional
approaches described in this memo with all students. For grades 1, 2, and 3, it is appropriate for
teachers to use this instructional approach with students who have PALS-1-3 Spelling scores
below the publisher¡¯s grade-level benchmarks, including students who begin grade 1 with PALS1 Spelling scores below 11. Where teachers of grades 1¨C3 begin in the trajectory and which
instructional activities they emphasize will depend on their students¡¯ skills and identified needs.
The importance of phonological and phonemic awareness
Phonological awareness is a global awareness of the sound structures of speech and the
ability to manipulate those structures. Phonological awareness is an umbrella term that
encompasses both basic levels of awareness of speech sounds, such as rhyming, alliteration,
the number of words in a sentence, and the syllables within words, as well as more advanced
levels of awareness such as onset-rime awareness, the beginning and ending sounds within
words. Phonemic awareness is the most advanced level of phonological awareness. It refers to
a child¡¯s awareness of the individual phonemes in spoken words and the ability to manipulate
those sounds (Gillon, 2017).
The National Reading Panel report (National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, 2000) states that explicit phonological awareness instruction is highly effective.
Recent evidence reviewed in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) practice guide
Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
(Foorman et al., 2016) and other subsequent research (for example, Stuebing, Barth, Cirino,
Francis, & Fletcher, 2018) support the report¡¯s conclusion. Foorman and colleagues specifically
found strong evidence in support of explicit phonological awareness instruction to prepare
students to read words and comprehend text. The ability to isolate sounds and then link those
sounds to letters is a significant step for students becoming proficient readers. Students who
struggle with reading often have lower phonological and phonemic awareness than their
classmates (Anthony & Francis, 2005; Hogan, Catts, & Little, 2005; Rack, 2017).
There are three main aspects of phonological and phonemic awareness that students rely
on to read proficiently. To effectively decode (convert from print to speech) and encode
(convert from speech to print) all words, students must be able to
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identify the individual sounds, or phonemes, that make up the words they hear in
speech;
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name the letters of the alphabet as they appear in print; and
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identify each letter¡¯s corresponding sound(s).
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