More Phonological Awareness!

I've been working so hard on this next product! It's taken me a long time to complete but it's finally finished! Yay!

This phonological awareness packet focuses on isolating initial, final, and medial sounds from words. It really works on listening skills and the ability to hear sounds in different positions of words. Included are 16 different task cards for each of the following skills:

*Discriminating initial sounds
*Discriminating initial sounds with choices
*Isolating initial sounds independently
*Discriminating final sounds
*Discriminating final sounds with choices
*Isolating final sounds independently
*Discriminating medial sounds
*Discriminating medial sounds with choices
*Isolating medial sounds independently


Here's a preview of what it looks like:



These cards focus on deciding if two words start with the same sound
 



For these, the student is given a sound and asked to pick which word starts with that sound



Here, the student is asked to say with which sound a word starts

This will give students lots of practice with listening for sounds! I'm excited to use this my students very soon!

Go to my TPT store to buy it today: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Phonological-Awareness-Isolating-Initial-Final-and-Medial-Sounds-Part-III-1351297

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Kagan Cooperative Learning in the SLP's Classroom

Last week (or was that 2 weeks ago...summer brain!), I went to a Kagan training offered through my district. I absolutely loved it!

Do you ever find yourself in this scenario:

You have 5-6 students in a group and you're playing some sort of game. You are collecting data with each student's turn, but at the end of 30 minutes you only have 6 data points/student! That's not enough to get a true picture of how the student is progressing with his/her goals!

Kagan Cooperative Learning solves this problem!!!!

How??

If you have four students, assign each one a shoulder partner (person sitting next to them) so that you have two groups of two. If you have five students, have a trio and a 2-person group. If you have six students, arrange them in three groups of two. Each person is also assigned A or B in each group. You may want to label their seats: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, etc. They also have some neat mats shown here:

This works best with 4 desks pushed together.



I have a kidney table, so that arrangement doesn't quite work for me.

Anyway, for each question during a game, you can have the students do Timed-Pair-Share. This structure works best for open-ended questions (e.g. "What was your favorite part of the story?"). They get with their shoulder partner and you say, "A's are going first. You will have 30 seconds (or whatever time works for you) to share your answer. B's can only listen and ask A's questions during this time. When the 30 seconds is up, B's will respond with their answer. A's may only listen and ask questions at this time."


Another structure, Rally Robin, is perfect for list responses (e.g. "Name as many pets as you can."). Students get with their partners and you say, "B's are going first. B's will name one item and then A's will name another item. You will keep taking turns until I call time."

The wonderful thing about Kagan structures is that students are engaged. There is no hiding! Students must participate! There is more opportunity for data collection! I can't wait to try it this fall!

I will post more about this soon but I just wanted to give you a couple ideas to use when your school year starts!

Win This!!

I decided to do another giveaway! I love winning things, though it rarely happens!

Do you work on phonological awareness skills with any of your students? I created a product to work on counting, blending, and segmenting sounds and syllables. You can enter to win it here!

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I'm doing another give away! This time, I'm giving away a FREE copy of my TPT product: Phonological Awareness RTI Kit: Rhyming. It's Part I of a many part series targeting phonological awareness.

Check it out here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Phonological-Awareness-RTI-Kit-Rhyming-1302334

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Phonological Awareness: Counting, Blending, and Separating Sounds & Syllables

Just posted Part II of my Phonological Awareness intervention kit. Here's a sneak peak for you:


Task cards for counting the number of syllables in words



Task cards for counting the number of sounds in words



Task cards for blending syllables



Task cards for blending sounds



Task cards for separating compound words



Task cards for separating 2-3 syllable words

Go to my TPT store to grab this! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Phonological-Awareness-Counting-Blending-and-Separating-Sounds-and-Syllables-1305922



Phonological Awareness Skills, Rhyming, and RTI

I just posted my newest product on TPT! This product targets the phonological awareness skill of rhyming. It breaks it down into a hierarchy of tasks from discrimination up to independently generating rhyming words. In my last post, I talked about how these skills can even be missing in 5th graders. Please! Screen your 1st grade+ students and make sure they have the foundational skills needed for reading!

Rhyming is one of the earliest forming phonological awareness skills and should be developed by age 5. You would be surprised how many 4th grade students we found last year that could not rhyme! Imagine how difficult it is for these children to learn about word families when they cannot even identify words that rhyme!

So, with this product you have four tasks to choose from. The first task is a discrimination task ("Does x and y rhyme?"). Two images are shown and the child is asked to determine (Yes/No) if the two words rhyme. Because the focus is on phonological awareness and not phonics, no words are shown. Here's a sample page of 8 flashcards:

 

 

 

The second task has the child identify a rhyming word with choices. One image is shown at the top of the flashcard and two images are shown below a line on the bottom of the flashcard. The student decides which of the two images at the bottom rhymes with the word on top. The foils are words that start with the same initial sound, but do not rhyme. Here's a sample of what that looks like:

 

 

 

 

The third and fourth tasks have the student generate a rhyming word with and without clues. Pictures are provided to help lower the working memory demands of the task. After every task set there is an answer key so if you are unsure what the picture is trying to depict, you can look for it there.

 

 

At our school, we have had secretaries and clerks administer this treatment after we screen. It's easy for them to do, and requires just five minutes/day. When we piloted this last year, we were shocked with how quickly the kids picked up on these skills with targeted instruction. This RTI program can really strengthen a child's foundational literacy skills.

 

Download this today at my TPT store: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Phonological-Awareness-RTI-Kit-Rhyming-1302334

 

Look for my next phonological awareness packet that will focus on counting, blending, and separating sounds and syllables! I hope to have that up by Thursday!

 

 

Grace