A Simple Method Of Teaching Phonological Awareness To First Graders

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If you are studying for the CSET Multiple Subjects examination, then you need to know how to teach phonological awareness in the classroom. Do not be taken by surprise with a constructed-response question that reads, “Describe how you will teach phonemic awareness to first graders.”

Phonemic Awareness

I had to come up with an outline explaining the way I teach phonological awareness skills. I usually just PLAY with words with the kids and they seem to understand phonologically. I had to stop and think about what I do when I play with words. I came up with a list.

Here it is:
rhyming, segmenting, isolating, blending, playing.
Here is what I do.
I read a book. For the ease of understanding, I’ll use the story The Three Pigs.

1. Rhyming

I will ask questions that will answer: pig, house, ran.
Such as, What kind of animal were the three brothers?
We will brain storm words that rhyme with pig.
Then I will play a quick game of does it or does it not rhyme using the words we brainstormed. I’ll use pairs like: pig/big, dig/mouse, money/man, house/louse, …..

2. Segmenting

I will then ask a simple comprehension question that will take a simple answer. What did the third pig make his house out of?
They will come up with a sentence: The third brother made his house out of bricks.
I will write this on a chart. We will repeat this answer several times. I will ask them how many words are in this sentence. Then we will count it together.
I will ask them to say part of the sentence.
They will say: brother made his
I will ask them to say part of that.
They will say: made his
I will ask them to say part of that.
They will say: made
Then we will segment made.
I say, Say part of made.
They will say ma
I say, Say part of ma.
They will say mmmmmm.
I will say what is the third word in our sentence.

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