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  1. Natural Learning from A-Z: Thematic Activities and Phonemic Awareness Emphasis for Letters and Letter Sounds by Mary Jo Ayres, 1997-11
  2. Scott Foresman Reading: Favorite Things Old and New, Teacher's Edition (Grade 1, Unit 4) by Scott Foresman, 2004
  3. Tongue Twisters to Teach Phonemic Awareness And Phonics: Beginning Blends And Digraphs by Joyce Kohfeldt, 2005-10-30
  4. Tongue Twisters to Teach Phonemic Awareness And Phonics: Beginning Consonants And Vowels by Joyce Kohfeldt, 2005-09-30
  5. Making Words Second Grade: 100 Hands-On Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and Spelling (Making Words Series) by Patricia M. Cunningham, Dorothy P. Hall, 2008-01-18
  6. Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Practice Book, Grade 5 (McGraw-Hill Reading)
  7. Making Words First Grade: 100 Hands-On Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and Spelling (Making Words Series) by Patricia M. Cunningham, Dorothy P. Hall, 2008-01-06
  8. Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Practice Book (Grade 5)
  9. Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Practice Book (Grade 2)
  10. Building blocks for literacy phonemics awareness-phonics: Resource handbook by Gloria Klopf, 2003
  11. Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum by Marilyn Jager Adams, Barbara R. Foorman, et all 1997-10
  12. INVESTIGATING THE STATUS AND PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF EXPLICIT PHONIC INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS.(Brief Article): An article from: Reading Improvement by Gary L. Shaffer, Patricia Campbell, et all 2000-09-22
  13. Phonics from A to Z(2nd Edition) (Scholastic Teaching Strategies) by Wiley Blevins, 2006-07-01
  14. Pre-phonics tests: Phoneme awareness and more by Edward Fry, 1998

41. Listening And Reading Processes Of Adults: A Report Of Survey Findings And Refer
questions about the knowledge and training that they have had about phonemics, phonics, listening and reading processes of adult literacy students.
http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/mar2000/page1.htm
Listening and Reading Processes of Adults:
A Report of Survey Findings and References From a Workshop Presented in the United States and Canada in 1999. Thomas G. Sticht March 8, 2000 In the United States, the 1998 Workforce Investment Act, Title 2: The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) takes long steps from policy into the actual practice of adult education. The text of the AEFLA emphasizes that in considering applications for grants from educational providers, granting agencies should consider whether or not the program ".uses instructional practices, such as phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, fluency, and reading comprehension that research has proven to be effective in teaching individuals to read." It refers to these instructional practices six times throughout the AEFLA. Clearly, the emphasis on "phonemic awareness," "systematic phonics" and "fluency" draws a direct connection between adult's oral language skills of speaking and listening, and their literacy skills of reading and writing. The major purpose of phonemic awareness, phonics and fluency training is to make it possible for people to learn to decode and comprehend the written language through reading with the same or greater effectiveness and efficiency as they can comprehend their earlier developed oral language by listening. These relationships of oral and written languages is also of great importance in the education of adults with learning disabilities.

42. The "Scientific" Understanding Of Reading And The "Reading Potential" Of Adults
The Scientific Understanding of reading and the reading Potential of Adults instruction in phonemics , phonics and other decoding knowledge,
http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/feb02/page1.htm
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2 February 2002 The "Scientific" Understanding of Reading and the "Reading Potential" of Adults Assessed by Measuring Listening and Reading Abilities Thomas G. Sticht
International Consultant in Adult Education Full Text documents at www.nald.ca searched by my last name). see reference below The concept of "reading potential" is important for adult literacy educators for at least two reasons. First, whether people are designated as "learning disabled" or not is frequently based on the idea that on some measure, such as an "intelligence" test, the people are at their appropriate age level or above, but on a reading measure they are one, two or more years behind. In other words, they are not reading "up to their potential." Listening tests are one way of assessing people's "reading potential." In fact, most individually administered intelligence or verbal IQ tests present questions by speaking to the person being examined. The person has to listen to receive the questions and explanations needed to complete the test. Therefore, individual intelligence tests like the Stanford-Binet, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and Wechsler intelligence scales for children and adults can be thought of largely as listening tests. The second reason that the concept of "reading potential" is important in adult literacy education is that it is frequently thought that adults in need of literacy education have lived a reasonably long time and developed fairly high levels of competence in oral language, including vocabulary and comprehension ability for listening. Therefore, it is assumed, unlike children, whose oral language skills are not well developed yet and who must acquire higher levels of vocabulary while also learning to read, adults will be able to acquire a fairly high level of literacy in a brief time, relative to that required by children. This leads to the expectation that the adult's literacy problems may be solved fairly quickly with a relatively brief period of training in some form of decoding the written word to utilize the vast amount of competence already possessed in the oral language.

43. ETRL Software
Children will practice skills in phonics, prereading, early math, language, Teach Me phonemics Medials. Back to the Top. reading/Writing Support
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    Building on the original Kid Pix program, this multimedia exploration and art program offers drawing, painting, stamping, animations, slide show, movies and coloring options such as hidden pictures, and fill-in coloring pages. Each choice provides great sound effects. Kidworks Delux (preschool, elementary)

44. Early Warning System By G. REID LYON And JACK M. FLETCHER - Education Next - Sum
print represents the sounds of speech, can apply phonemics and phonics rapidly and fluently, and connect their reading to their background knowledge.
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Early Warning Systeme
Since the 1976–77 school year, when Congress first required public schools to count the number of children with learning disabilities (LD), the share of school-age children labeled LD has risen from 1.8 percent to 5.2 percent. Learning disabilities now account for more than half of all students enrolled in special-education programs, up from 22 percent a quarter century ago. In the past decade alone, the number of students aged 6–21 identified as learning disabled under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) has increased 38 percent. The largest jump, of 44 percent, has been seen among adolescents aged 12–17—a significant yet poorly understood increase. Private and postsecondary schools have experienced similar increases. The steadily growing number of students identified as LD invites public skepticism. Most scientific experts, however, agree that 5 percent, and likely more, of our school population suffer severe difficulties with language and other skills. Even so, the disproportionate rise in the incidence of LD, especially among adolescents, does raise questions about the methods of identifying and treating learning disabilities. What explains the rise of LD? Is it the result of positive developments, such as improved identification methods? Or is the definition of LD too general and ambiguous to catch younger students before they fail? Are some students identified as LD simply the victims of poor teaching? Put another way, does the education profession adequately prepare teachers to address differences among children?

45. Key Concepts In FL Literacy: Phonemic Awareness (PHONEMAWAR1.HTM)
phonemics vs. phonetics. These two terms are often confused, yet there is an Phonological or phonemic awareness + phonics skills = beginning reading
http://www2.aasa.ac.jp/~dcdycus/LAC98/FEB98/PHONAWA1.HTM
Literacy Across Cultures
February 1998 1/2
Key Concepts in FL Literacy: Phonemic Awareness
Charles Jannuzi Fukui University, Japan
Introduction
In this third key concept article for LAC , I will look more closely at a term that is being discussed a lot in the literacy field: phonemic awareness . The perceived importance of this concept, in part, seems to arise because linguistic and psycholinguistic insights have long been a concern in literacy research and pedagogy. Linguistic insights, too, have played a significant role in ELT and TESOL, such as the prestigious, usually university-based areas of research and intellectual endeavor known as Applied Linguistics (AL) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). However, phonemic awareness both the term and the concepts it might denotedoes not seem to be covered very deeply in the discourses of AL and SLA.
The state of the art: SLA
I consulted Ellis's (1994) monumental work on SLA, The Study of Second Language Acquisition , only to find that for the purposes of this key concept article, the term does not exist in the sort of SLA research and analysis that so often guides theory and practice in ELT/TESOL. We see this in actual workaday ELT/TESOL when both academics (such as teacher trainers) and classroom teachers dismiss phonology as "pronunciation practice", the main purpose of which is trivially to reduce or "fix" accents. Or they prioritize it out of existence, leaving it off already crowded syllabuses. The closest conceptualization of something that approaches the term "phonemic awareness" that I could find in the SLA literature is Ard (1989), who argues for a constructivist approach in accounting for L2 interlanguage phonology. He writes:

46. Missouri State Teachers Association
phonemics and phonics Internet technologies not only assist in improving reading Students can read the text as they listen to a fluent reader.
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47. Phonemics | Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops
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48. Intro/Foundations Of Education Resources Links
phonics and phonemics Awareness Riggs Institute phonicsSpelling-Whole Language The Role of phonics in the Teaching of reading
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49. Grapho-Phonemics
Educators intent on teaching spelling and reading generally discard wh as a phonics only decodes and suggests that there are more than 46 sounds.
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How many significant sounds are there in English speech Speech cannot be fully reduced to graphic representation but we can capture enough information to enable speakers to reproduce it. Some codes are good enough to help non-native speakers. This page was originally developed to answer a question regarding how to map New Spelling and other notations to IPA. It then became the starting point for an article on the phoneme inventory To work out the grapheme-phoneme correspondences, one must start with an inventory of significant speech sounds or phonemes. These were worked out over 100 years ago by Ellis, Isaac Pitman, Henry Sweet, and Daniel Jones See Truespel
The Phoneme Inventory
The Jones-IPA 21 vowel matrix for RP A ny orthographic system for English should have a unique grapheme [symbol] for most of the 12 pure vowels and the important combinations of vowel phonemes. The sounds that Daniel Jone s considered to be essential for a full description of English speech are listed below According to Harry Lindgren , many proposed reform notations for English fail by not having a unique symbol for sch wa . Schwa [an unstressed mid lax vowel] is one of the most frequent sounds in English speech. Roughly 10% of your utterances are [uhs] or schwas. Lindgren considered this oversight to be sufficient to eliminate the proposed notation from serious consideration.

50. Teacher Perceptions Of Professional Development
(a) phonics (b) phonemics (c) orthography (d) phonetics (e) either a or d phonics. Use guided reading/ reading Recovery. Use whole language
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Believe and Know About Early Reading Instruction
Candace Bos University of Texas at Austin Nancy Mather University of Arizona Shirley Dickson Texas Education Agency Blanche Podhajski Stern Center for Language and Learning David Chard University of Oregon Abstract A major conclusion from research on children with poor reading performance is that early, systematic instruction in phonological awareness and letter-sound correspondences improves early reading and spelling skills and results in a reduction of the number of students who are reading below grade level. To teach reading to at-risk students and students with reading disabilities, teachers need to have both positive perceptions regarding the role of systematic, explicit instruction, as well as knowledge of English language structure. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions and knowledge of general and special preservice educators at several large universities and inservice educators from several geographic areas toward early literacy instruction.

51. Vol
phonicsbased instruction improves reading skills. By Jason Mosheim The tutoring really was on phonemics and decoding, Dr. Flowers stated.
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52. Linguistics - Miscellaneous Linguistics Resources:Linguistic Funland TESL/ESL/EF
Teaching Linguistic skills in Phonetics, phonemics, Morphology and Syntax and for early reading instruction. Plus win a free copy of phonics Rules!
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53. Reading
They are brilliant to help with learning phonics and my 4 year old nephew A wonderful book to help k2 teachers introduce phonemics - Scholastics and
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54. Centre AlphaPlus Centre
phonics, phonemics, Phonetics, and Phunny Ideas about Teaching reading Writing. A phonics Test for Good Readers; A Simple Fonnix Ken Bee Phun Kwiz
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55. AVKO | Test For Tutors
What are some of the benefits for a tutor of reading and writing upside down? What is the difference between phonics and phonemics?
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Product Index Tutor Test based on the book The Teaching of Reading (and Spelling): a Continuum from Kindergarten through College Section One . Questions that a tutor should be able to answer: 1. How does reading upside down affect comprehension? 2. What are some of the benefits for a tutor of reading and writing upside down? 3. How would you personally define reading? Is there any perfect definition of what reading is? 4. How would you define dyslexia? Is there any definition of dyslexia that you think is better than the rest? 5. What are the most common misconceptions about dyslexia? Section Two
  • What are the names of the leading experts on both sides of the phonics vs. whole language controversy? Which experts (if any) has clearly and personally demonstrated that his/her method works on real students? On dyslexics? How phonetically regular is English spelling? How phonically regular? Whoops! What is the difference between phonetics and phonics? What is the difference between phonics and phonemics?
  • 56. AVKO | The Teaching Of Reading
    Section 2 phonics, phonemics, Phonetics, and Phunny Ideas about Teaching A phonics Test for Good Readers. 8. A Simple Fonnix Ken Bee Phun Kwiz.
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    1. Learn about the Learning-to-Read Process by Teaching Yourself to Read and Write Upside down.
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    57. Phonemics
    Phonemic Awareness phonics Vocabulary reading Comprehension Word Recognition Readiness Spelling Grammar Math Writing
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    Phonemic Awareness Overview This program teaches students at a K to 2 grade level 38 different phoneme sounds, how to isolate these sounds in words, as well as phoneme addition, deletion and substitution. There are more than 200 activities in this program to teach essential phonemic awareness skills.
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    58. Literacy Today - From Oracy To Literacy
    Adults who struggle with literacy are usually tested on their reading ability. effective instruction in phonemics, phonics and other decoding knowledge,
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    www.literacytrust.org.uk Building a literate nation Literacy Today Main Menu NLT home Site A-Z What's new Resources ... Contact us NLT initiatives National Reading Campaign Reading Connects Reading Champions The Vital Link ... Reading Is Fundamental, UK This article first appeared in the Sept e mber 2003 issue of Literacy Today (issue no. 36). From oracy to literacy
    Dr Thomas G Sticht Adults who struggle with literacy are usually tested on their reading ability. But can their oral language skills be used to measure and also improve their reading? DR Thomas G. Sticht, an international consultant in adult education, explains the 'reading potential' of adults.
    As children grow up, their listening ability develops first and reading ability is acquired later. This leads to the concept of 'reading potential'. When they enter the primary grades, children can generally comprehend more by listening than by reading. For instance, a child in the first grade may comprehend stories by listening just as well as the average third grader can comprehend the same stories by reading. Therefore, the average first grader's listening score can be said to indicate a 'reading potential' of the third grade level. This is because if the average first grade child could instantly comprehend by reading as well as he or she can by listening, they would have a reading ability comparable to a typical third grader's reading ability.

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    DEM *phonemics; *phonics-; *Writing-Composition; *Written-Language DEM *phonics-; *reading-Games; *reading-Instruction
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    Notes and Abstracts: Preliminary ERIC Search on Phonemic Awareness/3 June 1997 Angela G. Andrews (agandrews@dcmrats.org) From Mei-Yu Lu, User Services Assistant ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 13:10:22 -0500 Subject: Phonemic Awareness I conducted a sample search of the ERIC database. Below, I have appended my search strategy, citations with abstracts, and directions for accessing the full-text. These citations may represent an introductory, rather than exhaustive, search for information on your topic. If you would like to conduct your own free ERIC database searches via the Internet, please send a request for directions to askeric@ericir.syr.edu or go directly to http://ericir.syr.edu . I have also attached some related resources that may be helpful. Thank you for using AskERIC! If you have any questions or would like further assistance, please do not hesitate to send another message. *Accessing the Full-Text of ERIC Documents and Journals* http://www.edrs.com/

    60. The Phonemics (Home Page)
    The game will focus on reading comprehension using techniques such as phonics and word http//www.cs.utexas.edu/users/almstrum/s2s/f99/0905-phonemics/
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    To develop an interactive educational utility designed to aid severe learning disabled middle school students. The game will focus on reading comprehension using techniques such as phonics and word attack skills. A game in which the player is looking for friends, in the imaginary world, by finding notes left for them. The notes will provide clues as to where to go, in the game world, next. Many games and tools will be available to the player when reading a note. For example, when the user encounters a word they do not know they can click on the word and hear a phonetic break down of the word and a complete pronunciation. The games will then test the user's comprehension of the note. When the user finds his/her friends the game will present an award screen.
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