Phonemic Awareness: A Step by Step Approach for Success in Early Reading

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This guide will help teach phonemic awareness to Pre K-3 students. It presents phonemic awareness as one of the most sophisticated branches of phonological awareness through interactive activities that allows the student to succeed in learning the sounds represented by the letters of the alphabet. Phonemic Awareness: Step by Step is designed to provide easy-to-follow suggestions for: (1) assessing student's phonemic awareness; (2) instruction on phonemic awareness skills and strategies or activities that reinforce those skills; and (3) development of phonemic awareness through many rhymes, riddles, games, word sorting, sound manipulation, and songs to reinforce patterns in words. Web sites are provided for the user to enhance classroom instruction and to bring state-of-the-art resources to the student.

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One of the most misunderstood components of reading is phonemic awareness, even with all of the breakthroughs of the last 25 years. Professor Perezs strong effort and clear delineations should clarify and underscore the importance of phonemic awareness as precursor to fluent reading. -- Lem Londos Railsback, Ph.D., professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas A&M International University
This textbook promises to fill in the gaps between what we know from phonemic awareness research and the instruction we provide beginning readers. The textbook will be received as a ready resource by both novice and experienced teachers and will probably adorn the desks of most. -- Phillip C. Gonzales, Ed.D., former dean, School of Education, King College, Bristol, TN

Author Bio

Idalia Rodriguez Perez has over 30 years of experience teaching reading in public schools and higher education. The author has also directed a Reading Clinic for struggling readers, developed and directed a Reading Research Center, and is an architect of the Texas state Master Reading Teacher and Reading Specialist Certification Programs.