CUASITO, ALFIE MARQUEZ - MALAMAWI NHS

DIVISION TRAINING ON LITERACY

INSTRUCTION

SESSION 3: RAISING PHONOLOGICAL

AWARENESS AS FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS DECODING

ASSIGNMENT A
Reflection Question: Knowing the influence or contribution of Phonemic Awareness to the success
of Phonics instruction, how can we help our reading teachers in promoting the teaching of PA in the
classroom?

The great contribution of Phonemic Awareness to the success of Phonics instruction has its paved
its way to developing more competent and proficient learners of today. There are many skills a learner
needs to develop before successfully learning to read and write. This is where decoding and encoding
become essential. Thus, Phonemic Awareness becomes very useful.

In the learning milieu of learner, teacher must then need to consider the way learners learn
because it is one best factor to be considered by the teacher. Reading teachers play a pivotal role in
developing and promoting the teaching of PA in the classroom. This could possibly be done through
some ways: (1) highlighting phonological awareness concepts in songs, rhymes, poems, stories and
written texts during early age of a child because the early years of learners in school serves as his starting
ground in building good and stronger foundation. Also (2) finding patterns of rhyme in words that could
enable learners to easily comprehend and interpret meaning of words, (3) matching pictures to other
pictures and words could also develop their reading skill through easy identification of word meaning,
and lastly (4) using games to practice the awareness of syllables, rhyme, individual sounds which will
allow learners not only to learn but to develop interest because learners best learn when it raises their
interest. 😊
 CUASITO, ALFIE MARQUEZ - MALAMAWI NHS

DIVISION TRAINING ON LITERACY

INSTRUCTION

SESSION 3: RAISING PHONOLOGICAL

AWARENESS AS FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS DECODING

ASSIGNMENT B - PHONETIC AWARENESS ASSESSMENT

Direction: Analyze and answer each item below. Then opposite your answer,
indicate the phonemic task being assessed.

1. Tell me the last sound in big.

/g/ Phoneme Isolation

2. Tell me the sound that is the same in bus, big, ball.

/b/ Phoneme Identification

3. Which word does not belong: mat, map, boy, men?

Boy – Phoneme Categorization

4. What word is /s/ /k/ /uw/ /l/?

school - Phoneme Blending

5. How many sounds are there in cake?

Phoneme Segmentation

6. What is smile without /s/?

mile – Phoneme Deletion

7. What is pot with /s/ at the beginning?

spot – Phoneme Addition

8. What will become of house if you change h to m?

mouse – Phoneme Manipulation