Phonemic Awareness Programs

by reading teacher

Sep 15, 2010

I have a student who is in desperate need of a PA program. I'm debating between Road to the Code or Sounds Sensible. Which would be better in a private tutoring session? The child has sound-symbol correspondence, but no ability to manipulate phonemes (segment, change or blend).

Funny thing is, he has such a great memory, that he has memorized rhyming words. So if you ask him a word rhymes with "cat" he actually has a word bank (mat, flat, sat). But if I were to ask him if "yat" rhymes with "cat" he has no clue! So the program must include some nonsense words to check understanding.

Any advice would be welcome.

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Grace/IL With all due respect, what is your goal here? If he can feed back rhyming words (real words), why is it important that he can match a nonsense word to a family he may already know? I think the more important issue is, "Can he read these words when he meets them in print?" This substitution skill may develop later once he has other skills in place. ...See More

Sep 19, 2010

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Julie Niles Petersen Are you sure the student understands the meaning of "rhyming words?" In case that is the problem, using consistent terminology and repeatedly explaining why words do/do not rhyme usually helps.

This is the terminology I use:

Yat.... hat.... do these words rhyme?

Yes.

How do we know?

They rhyme because t...See More

Sep 21, 2010

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Kenny Teaching Reading Strategies has loads of PA activities designed for 8-adult. Also has helpful diagnostic assessments, which you can copy for free at [link removed]

Perfect for RtI

Oct 1, 2010

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Nicole/MO The LIPS (auditory discrimination in depth) is a great program to stengthen phonemic/phonological awarentss. They also put out a program called "Seeing Stars" which is worth taking a look at. Both programs primarily use nonsense words, which are very important to ensure that students are using decoding strategies to figure out a word rather than gu...See More

Oct 5, 2010

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