Looking at Literacy
What BAISD teachers need to know today (Jan. 2019)
A New Year! New Books?
What is your favorite children's picture book? Do you have a 2018 favorite that didn't make the list? I'd love to hear about it!
The winners are pictured below.
2018 Fiction Picture Book Nerdy Award Winners
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
All Are Welcome
Alma and How She Got Her Name
The Remember Balloons
They Say Blue
We Don't Eat Our Classmates
2018 Nonfiction Picture Book Nerdy Award Winners
Between the Lines
Counting on Katherine
Cute as an Axolotl
Game Changers
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor
Let the Children March
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop
No Small Potatoes
Otis and Will Discover the Deep
Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers
Pride
She Persisted Around the World
The Brilliant Deep
The Flying Girl
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon
Water Land
We Are Grateful
What Do You Do With a Voice Like That?
Essential Instructional Practice #4: Activities that Build Phonological Awareness
As a quick review, phonological awareness is the umbrella term that encompasses many underlying components. These include, from the most basic to most complex, rhyming, syllabication, onset-rime, and phonemes. While this essential instructional practice includes all phonological awareness skills, it is important to note that most of our time should be spent on phonemic awareness skills as they are the skills necessary for reading. This practice should be present in all K-1 classrooms, and as needed in grades 2 and 3.
Essential 4 Video Samples
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It is also important to remember that phonological awareness activities can all be done independently of text. It is an auditory practice. Some recommended activities from this essential include:
- the creation of variations of rhyming books or books with alliteration (see video 1)
- sound sorts of pictures, objects, and words (see video 2)
- Elkonin boxes/sound boxes and other tools for segmenting sounds (see video 3)
- blending activities (see video 4)
- daily writing opportunities where they have to listen to the sounds of the words to estimate their spellings (see video 5)
In the videos below, you will see examples of these practices in use in Michigan classrooms with real teachers.
Remember to find out more, or enroll in the free modules to dig deeper into the essentials alone, with colleagues, or ideally facilitated by a coach/trainer, visit the website linked below:
http://literacyessentials.org