Mrs. Meacham-Title 1
Welcome! I am the Title 1 teacher at Ellis School. I teach phonics in first and second grades and help with Reading and Math in all other grades as needed. |
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the awareness of sounds that make up the words that we speak.
Children, in order to learn the connection between letters and sounds, must understand thatwords are made up of phonemes.
Being able to distinguish between individual sounds in words is an essential beginning to associating sounds with letters. We work many hours in early first grade on oral blending and segmentation. Oral blending is listening to and combining individual sounds, putting them together to make words .
Example-Oral Blending-initial consonant sounds
Teacher: /m/...otorcycle What's my word?
Children: motorcycle
Segmentation, on the other hand, allows the student to isolate the sounds from their words.
Example-Segmentation-dropping final consonants
Teacher: much
Puppet: mu
Children: /ch/ |
| Phonics and Blending |
Phonics is a way of decoding and spelling that deals with the relationship between sounds and their symbols(letters that represent the sounds).
Blending is essential to phonics instruction. It is learning to put separate spellings for sounds together smoothly in order to read the words.
Phonics blending allows the students to look at the spellings, blend the sounds, and recognize the words-in other words-READ! |
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Ellis Elementary School
