Foundations of Reading: Advanced Phonemic Awareness - Beyond Blending and Segmenting
Early literacy skills underpin later reading success. The research strongly supports phonemic awareness as an essential foundational skill related to reading success. This training will focus on the research evidence related to phonemic awareness to advanced levels for primary students in grades Kindergarten through Second Grade. Participants will be instructed in how to successfully implement a direct, explicit and systematic phonemic awareness instruction into daily classroom practice. Specifically, instructional practices shared will support student's consistent engagement with manipulating sounds at the word, syllable, onset-rime and phoneme level. Language awareness skills will focus on classic nurserv rhvmes. Assessments related to phone mic awareness will also be offered. Competencies: Participants will be able to: Define Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Describe the importance nursery rhymes to early literacy skill development Overview of the research behind the curriculum & its alignment to the Pennsylvania Core Standards Define the 10 components included in the Phonemic Awareness curriculum Review of the scope & sequence for each skill over the 35 weeks of lessons Lesson modeling, including hand motions, of a complete lesson Hands-on experience with the curriculum through lesson practice with participants Using Phonemic Awareness in an intervention setting Phonemic Awareness and Phonics: Working together to help students decode Assessing and monitoring student progress with Phonemic Awareness.
COST: $40 ~ Includes lunch, materials and ACT 48 processing.
Registration closes on November 28, 2018.