Learning Activity

#Advanced Phonemic Awareness (During)

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

2

Overview

The purpose of this “during” activity is to provide practice opportunities for students to engage in the manipulation of phonemes through an activity called "chaining." This activity supports students in building their articulation and distinguishing between the initial, medial, and final sounds in words. "Chaining" allows students to warm up their brains and practice hearing, seeing, and moving letters around to recognize patterns and repetition in language that will support their phonological and phonemic awareness. 

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.R2

Use knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and word analysis skills to decode and encode words accurately.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.R2

Vocabulary

  • Decode
  • Encode
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Word-analysis skills

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Phoneme (sound) to grapheme (letter or letters) correspondences to encode (spell) words accurately.
  • Grapheme (letter or letters) to phoneme (sound) correspondences to decode (read) words accurately.
  • Word-analysis skills.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Accurately encode and decode words using knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
  • Accurately encode and decode words using word analysis skills.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Mapping graphemes to phonemes is essential for learning to read or decode words efficiently.
  • Mapping phonemes to graphemes is essential for learning to spell or encode words efficiently.
  • Analyzing a word's structure helps to read and spell a word.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.9

Demonstrate advanced phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.9

Vocabulary

  • Demonstrate
  • Advanced phonemic awareness skills
  • Spoken words

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate the phonemes (sounds) in spoken words.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify individual phonemes in words and manipulate those sounds.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Words are made up of one or more phonemes.
  • They can demonstrate advanced phonemic awareness skills by manipulating those phonemes through additions, deletions, reversals, and substitutions of phonemes.
  • Advanced phonemic awareness skills will help them improve their reading, spelling, and writing.

Phase

During/Explore/Explain
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this "during" activity, students will know how to manipulate phonemes in any location in a word such as initial, medial, and final sounds in words. 

Students will be able to apply phoneme chaining that changes one sound at a time.

Students will be able to use their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences to encode words accurately.

Activity Details

The teacher should print out the included digital tool. This document provides the procedures to redeliver this activity with small groups of students.

Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

As you conduct the group chaining activity, observe students and evaluate their responses to the phonemic awareness and phonics tasks to determine their mastery of the skills. 

Acceleration

Advanced students should create their own "word chaining" list. Students can share their word-chaining list with a partner.

Intervention

In a small group, the teacher can use Elkonin boxes and two different color manipulatives to demonstrate sound manipulation in word-chaining scenarios. Students work using Elkonin boxes to count phonemes and graphemes, recognizing that some words have 4 letters, but only three sounds. See this video for a demonstration of this strategy.

Approximate Duration

Total Duration

16 to 30 Minutes

Related Learning Activities

Learning Activity (Before)

#Advanced Phonemic Awareness (Before)

Learning Activity (During)

#Advanced Phonemic Awareness (During)

Learning Activity (After)

#Advanced Phonemic Awareness (After)

Background and Preparation

Background / Preparation

In this activity, you can introduce the skill with a quick review of the "before" activity to review sound manipulation skills with students. There are videos included that can be used to practice sound manipulation, substitutions, deletions, and additions. 

The teacher will need to have this list of words and procedures available during the activity. The teacher should review the procedures prior to teaching the activity to students.

Materials and Resources

Materials and Resources

Phonemic Awareness Sound Chaining Procedures

Elkonin boxes and colored manipulatives (for Intervention Activity)

Digital Tools / Resources

Phonemic Awareness Sound Chaining Procedures
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P36o1IhjQo6qirJPUiupXR_akCHcl4Ww9mDE8cUu-2E…

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Owner (Author)

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