Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness

"After I introduce a letter, I cut out from butcher paper a large object that begins with the letter we are working on, and I hang it up in the classroom. Each day, my children dictate words that begin with that letter to write on the picture. When we complete the book for a letter, I draw a name from a hat and one child gets to take the picture home."
– Suzanne Webb, Kindergarten teacher, Houston, Texas

"When I introduce a letter, I also introduce a correlating Career Bear. This is a bear that we dress up in different career-related outfits for all of the letters. For example, when we are studying the letter F, we dress up the bear as Firefighter Bear. Then we read about that career and the skills needed for it."
– Gayle Chryn, Kindergarten teacher, Brecksville, Ohio

"Each time I introduce a new letter, my class brainstorms a list of words that begin with that sound. Then we create a poster with pictures of our words for that letter."
– Jennifer Clark, Kindergarten teacher, Linwood, Pennsylvania