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Sounds and Symbols - Hosted by Annette Bening, this hour long video presentation, focuses on how children learn the relationship between sounds, letters, and words as an initial step before being able to decode the printed word. Features children's book author and illustrator Norman Bridwell (Clifford the Big Red Dog). (Source: The Reading Rockets website, WETA)
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Systematic Skill Instruction- watch a reading specialist demonstrate modeling, guided practice, and error correction strategies during an intensive one-on-one lesson on letter sounds. She discusses how she models correct sounds and scaffolds using the "I do, we do, you do" approach. View the related sample material, Systematic Teaching Strategies at the same site. (Source: What Works Clearinghouse, The US Department of Education)
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Teaching Phonological Awareness - watch Dr. Susan Landry describe the developmental continuum of phonological awareness and why it is important to address skills at the highest level of the continuum, including linking letters and sounds. (Source: What Works Clearinghouse, The US Department of Education)
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Letters vs. Phonemes- Dr. Louisa Moats, reading expert and consultant, illustrates the difference between a phoneme and a letter and explains why it is important to teach phonological awareness skills in addition to letter knowledge. (Source: What Works Clearinghouse, The US Department of Education)
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Letter and Sounds - Watch a kindergarten teacher demonstrate an effective classroom activity for teaching phonemic awareness, including a brief lesson on letter-sound correspondence. (Source: What Works Clearinghouse, The US Department of Education)
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Phonemic Awareness- Listen to reading expert discuss phoneme substitution with a kindergarten teacher. (Source: The Reading Rockets website, WETA)
7. A researcher at Carnegie-Mellon
explains his research in phoneme awareness. (Source: The Reading Rockets website, WETA)
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Phonemic Segmentation- Watch Dr. Louisa Moats, reading expert and consultant, demonstrate activities for teaching segmentation and connecting sounds to letters. (Source: What Works Clearinghouse, The US Department of Education)
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Free-Reading Lesson: Identifying & Generating Rhyming Words- A video on teaching rhyming words from the Free Reading network, which offers free reading program for students K-6. (Source: YouTube, Free Reading)
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Free-Reading Lesson: Counting Words in a Sentence - A video on counting syllables in words. (Source: YouTube, Free Reading)
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Free-Reading Lesson: Introduce Onset-Rime Blending (Mico)- A video about onset and rime. (Source: YouTube, Free Reading)
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Letter Songs- Read Between the Lions offers videos on reading development, including phonemic awareness. (Source: Read Between the Lions, PBS Kids)
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LessoNets- These lessons are illustrated and narrated. Look under the “lessons” tab to find a list of the phonological awareness related lessons. (Source: The Reading Teacher's Network, The Neuhaus Education Center)
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Videos of Classroom Instruction- is a large video library on reading which contains the following:
- Alliteration of b
- Alliteration of m
- Clap out syllables
- Counting words in a sentence
- Language enrichment concept – the syllable
- Language enrichment reading practice - phonological awareness and dialogue
- Introduction of a read-aloud book
- In this video, the teacher demonstrates using pictures during a small-group read-aloud with students, and then allowing the students to utilize the same pictures to retell the story. (Source: The Reading Teacher's Network, The Neuhaus Education Center)
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Small Group - a webinar on letter recognition and phonological awareness. (Source: The Reading Teacher's Network, The Neuhaus Education Center)
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Sound Blending Idea - A train helps teach phonemic awareness and, then, is used to for a center activity. (Source: YouTube, Element Ory website)
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A Comprehensive Approach to Literacy Instruction - This link provides an overview of the reading process which includes phoneme awareness. (Source: The Reading Teacher's Network, The Neuhaus Education Center)
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Reading Topics A-Z - View the video clip titled Roundtable Discussion: Literacy Workstations for a discussion among a 3rd grade and a 5th grade teacher and the author, Debbie Diller, about literacy work stations. (Source: The Reading Rockets website, WETA)
19. Watch a
teacher assess a child’s skill in naming letters and then matching the letter to its sound. The teacher also assess the child’s ability to recognize rhyming words. (Source: The Reading Rockets website, WETA)
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An Introduction to Comprehensive Assessment and
High Expectations: Students Learn to Rise to the Occasion Although these two videos are not directly related to asking and answering questions, they provide a good overview of the assessment process in elementary grades. See also Battelle for Kids, under at the “assessment” tab.
(Source: Edutopia Website)