Oh hello and welcome, everybody, to Miss Maurice's class. Today I'll be modeling
phonemic awareness lessons. Now remember: this is the key to learning to read, and it is the
ability to identify different sounds and words and to connect those sounds to letters and even
Spelling's structured phonemic awareness lessons help students hear and understand the sounds from
which words are made so let's do a lesson today focusing on ending sounds since oftentimes you
hear students omit ending sounds when they speak and when they write I don't know if you've noticed
what sometimes students may say mr. so my hand hurts instead of saying hand or mr. so can I
stand by you instead of saying stand so let's work on ending sounds are you ready I'm going to use
the puppet we're going to call him Leo for today and he's going to help me understand ending sounds
and hear the ending sounds so let's take a look ready first let me model the example I'm gonna
say fun and he's gonna actually tell that tell me the ending sound in fun ready let's go fun mmm but
now he's going to actually change the ending for me so I'm gonna say fun and then actually
ask him to end it with the sound is so let's try that fuzz good say it fast fuzz good let's try
another one quit what's anything sound good now let's end it with let's try it quiz excellent
let's do some more win what's the ending sound mmm excellent now let's change it to the ending
sound is gonna be what let's try it Wyck say it fast Wyck excellent let's change this to like are
you guys ready like like ending sound but let's change the ending sound too you guys ready let's
do it life good say a fast life excellent let's do pike you guys ready ending sound in Pike good
now let's change the ending sound to mmm you guys ready Pyne good see a fast pine wonderful
two more to go you ready Lake less sound in Lake good let's change the blending sound - you guys
ready to go late good say it fast late excellent and the last one is puck ready lesson and puck
let's change the ending sound - you ready putt excellent one more time putt wonderful so that's
really reinforcing the ending sounds which we need to really do that orally and make sure the
students hear the final sounds in words what I just modeled was a whole class lesson for grades
K or 1 now for differentiation which we need to do to make sure every learner learns open court
reading foundational skills kids and actually open court reading core curriculum has support support
called the teacher resource book this teacher resource book provides many lessons to pre teach
or reteach lessons especially students coming from a different language background so there's support
for ELLs for every single lesson and actually in k3 and there's a contrastive analysis chart in the
back to make sure students really hear English sounds because coming from a different language
they may not have it in their first language so it's reinforcing certain sounds that do
not exist in their primary language for example the th sound in English is a very hard sound to
produce if you're coming from spanish-speaking background or Vietnamese background they don't
have it in their primary language so we really want to reinforce that so remember to check out
the contrast of analysis chart in the back of the teacher resource book to reinforce sounds
that may not happen in language one so their first language now another activity to reinforce
phonemic awareness that you'll see in open court reading actually in kindergarten and first grade
would be using these magnet magnetic boards let me show you how this works we're going to use
magnetic boards to reinforce sounds okay remember phonemic awareness is focusing on sounds and then
phonics means you're attaching Spelling's to the sounds so let's start with the phonemic awareness
lesson using this board let's say the word is let's say the word is chat what's the first sound
in chat everybody excellent let's slide down our little magnet here for the first sound Val sound
in chat ah excellent let's slide it down and last sound in chat is what wonderful so that would be
a phonemic awareness lesson because I'm focusing on sounds right we're not focusing on the print
now what happens when phonemic awareness now we're going to do phonics we're going to change
the phonics now we can add print or letters or Spelling's so let's do a phonics lesson
using these magnetic boards which come again in every k1 open court foundational skills kit and
actually open court reading program so let's do the first sound and pan everybody first sound in
pan yes and how do we spell it remember speech to print what's the sound now give me the spelling so
let's do that again the word is pan everybody what's the word pan first sound excellent and
how's it spelled P good let's slide it down Val sound in pan everybody ah excellent what's the
spelling a remember speech to print I just want to remind you we teach we teach languages that
are alphabetic speech to print we see that in all of our standards everybody they're called phoneme
to grapheme phoneme is a sound grapheme is a print less sound and pan is what mmm and how do we spell
the sound mmm in this particular word with an N good we want to make sure we actually say in this
word or which spelling of and are we using because in English how many Spelling's do we have four and
we have it KN and knife we have GN and sign so we want to just reinforce which spelling of now
we're using n thank you everybody for joining me and I look forward to seeing you in our next
lesson thank you have a great day for more on phonemic awareness and additional lessons on all
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