Phonological awareness

"The phonologial awareness package" compiled by Jane Sheils and Yvonne Sawyers.

It is a book organized in nine levels in which you can find songs and other resources related with the awareness of the form of words and the sounds.

LEVEL 1: knowledge of rhymes

Exposure to nursery rhymes can help students toward becoming proficient readers. The students develop  literacy skills.

To get better results it is important to use gestures, facial expressions, using easy songs... all things that the children can seem attractive and funny in the way that they learn.

I have chosen these songs:

LEVEL 2: Word Awareness

In this level, children have to identify words within sentences, because before to understand a complete sentence we need to know the meaning of each word or the majority of them.

For this level I chose compound words activity. This activity consists of using more than one picture to form compound words. So with two simple words they can obtain one complex word. This is my example:

LEVEL 3: Recognition & Production of Rhyme

The next step is to recognise the rhymes in the oral communication. It is a difficult stage because the children only hear the sounds. The activity that I have chosen for this level is: You can come sailing in my ship.
This activity is an oral activity. The teacher has to ask if the students wants to sailing in her ship. But they only can come if they bring something special. For example, the teacher say that she is going to take a bun, so the students have to think of things with the same rhyme like sun, fun, one...

I have done one mini child. If they say the correct word they will come in to the ship.

LEVEL 4: Recognition & Production of Syllables

The next step is the identification of syllables. All the activities of this level are related to the division of the syllables. I chose tha activity: clapping syllables. In this case, I recorded the activity with the vocaroo tool. This is the link: https://vocaroo.com/i/s1ZLtS5cr6Ly

LEVEL 5: Recognition & Production of intial sounds

Initial sound activities introduces the phonemes. My activity is: phoneme train. With this activity we can introduce the concept of phoneme through pictures and with a train with carriages. We start with CVC words and it is necessary that children understand that all words have a beggining, middle and an end.
So they can segment the pictures according to the phonemes of the word. This is an example:

We have the train:

We have the word cat; and we have the picture:

And finally they segment in phonemes and put them in the correct place:

LEVEL 6: Recognition & Production of final phonemes

My activity of this level is Last sound last. The objective of this activity is that the students recognise the last phonemes of a group of word. 

I use the vocaroo tool to do this activity. This is the link: https://vocaroo.com/i/s0hBxCQSNpKT

LEVEL 7 and 8: Blending phonemes to make words. Phonemic segmentation

Blending phonemes: a word is presented with the individual phonemes and the students have to put together to make the word. And phonemic segmentation is the opposite; the word is given in a normal way and the children have to segmente it.

My activity is: drawing lines in a picture. It consists of drawing lines in a picture as many phonemes have the words.

These are pictures of my activity:

LEVEL 9: Phonemic manipulation.

The ability to delete initial and final phonemes in words is the phonemic manipulation. This is the last step of the phonological awareness.  These are the most difficult activities of all them. My activity consists of saying correctly some words that a minion says wrong. For example, the minion says bug but the picture is a bus, the challenge for the children is to say the correct phonemes of the word.

I used the notebook for this activity so these are some screenshot of my activity: