Strategies Phonemic Awareness (89 pages)

Phonemic Awareness test: (to give more information regarding the students’ specific deficits and for slotting in to the P.A. program. Phonemic Awareness programme levels I-V: 2-3: TAAS (Test of Auditory Analysis Skills) with scores showing placement level in the program. (TAAS involves analysing the spoken word). Level 1. P.A. checklist & activities: clapping syllables/ dropping one syllable/ recognition of rhyme/ rhyming discrimination/ providing rhyming words & 2 syllable words/ hidden syllables/ missing syllables. Level II. P.A. checklist: memory for sentences. Counting words in sentences. Syllable activities. Level III. Beginning consonant sounds: sound to word matching/ word to word matching/ Isolation/ identification of initial/ final/ medial sounds/ rhyming. Activities: odd one out. Level IV: manipulation of initial, medial & final consonant sounds. Level V: Blending, telescoping, substituting, deleting part of a consonant blend: middle/ final sounds.Worksheets