DISTRICT TRAINING ON LITERACY INSTRUCTION
SESSION 3 TASK
Activity 1: Answering a 7-item Questionnaire on Phonemic Awareness
Instruction: Answer each item. Identify the phonemic awareness task employed.
1. Tell me the first sound in “bed”?
/b/
2. Tell me the sound that is the same in “man”, “map”, “mat”
/m/
3. Which word does not belong: “pan”, “pet”, “car”.
car
4. How many sounds are there in “happy”?
4
5. What is “cart” without /t/?
car
6. Replace /d/ in dice with /r/. What is the new word?
rice
Activity 2: Analysis
1. What are the different levels of Phonemic Awareness?
2. What are the different strategies employed?
3. What skills were used in each different level of Phonemic Awareness?
Use the chart below to plot your responses.
Strategy Skills Levels of PA
Word Awareness Blending, Rhyming, Alliteration
Segmentation,
Deletion
Syllable Awareness Blending, Syllable Blending
Segmentation,
Deletion
Onset-rime awareness Rhyme Recognition, Rhyming, Alliteration,
Rhyme Generation, and Segmenting
Categorization,
Blending,
Segmentation,
Deletion
Phonemic Awareness Isolation, Rhyming, Alliteration,
Identification, Sentence Segmenting,
Categorization, Syllable Blending, and
Blending, Segmenting.
Segmentation,
Deletion, Addition,
Substitution