Interventions for Reading Success

Diane Haager, Joseph Dimino, Michelle Windmueller

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781598572797
• eBook ISBN: 9781598577853
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

Help transform struggling K–3 students into skillful, enthusiastic readers—in just 20 to 30 minutes a day! It's all possible with the NEW edition of this bestselling curriculum supplement, your key to helping all students grasp the five Big Ideas of early literacy: phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Updated with new activities and the very latest on today's hot topics in literacy, this book gives you more than 130 research-based, teacher-tested activities you can use right now, with any core reading program. They're a perfect fit with response to intervention—use them with your entire class, small groups, or individual students who need more intensive support. Creative and versatile, these interventions are just what you need to help struggling students meet grade level standards and spark a lifelong love of reading.

LEARN HOW TO:

• Align reading instruction with Common Core State Standards
• Teach all the fundamentals of reading in a time-efficient way
• Use the RTI model to scaffold interventions (includes examples for Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 instruction)
• Deliver evidence-based instruction with confidence, with step-by-step instructional sequences you can use as is or modify as needed
• Plan assessment and make sound decisions based on data
• Strengthen the home-school connection with take-home activities parents can use with their children

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Copy-ready templates of activity materials, such as a blank bingo board, color tiles, letter tiles, word cards, word banks, and graphic organizers. Also includes more than 70 Home-School Connection activities. Materials are photocopiable and printable from the web.

SECTION II

Classroom
Activities

CHAPTER 5

Phonological Awareness

INTRODUCTION

Phonological awareness is the understanding of different ways that oral language can be manipulated and divided into smaller components. Spoken language can be broken down in many different ways, including sentences into words and words into syllables (e.g., in the word table, /tā/ and /bәl/), onset and rime (e.g., in the word brănch, /br/ and /ănch/), and individual phonemes (e.g., in the word pump, /p/, /ŭ/, /m/, /p/). Manipulating sounds includes deleting, adding, or substituting syllables or sounds (e.g., “say tăn; say it without the /t/; say tăn with /m/ instead of /t/”). When students have good phonological awareness, they have an understanding at all levels on the continuum (see Figure 5.1).

Figure 5.1. A continuum of complexity of phonological awareness activities. (From Chard, D.J., & Dickson, S.V. [1999, May]. Phonological awareness: Instructional and assessment guidelines. Intervention in School and Clinic, 34, 261–270. Copyright © 1999 by Sage Publications. Adapted by permission of Sage Publications.) (Full size view)

Activities that demonstrate an awareness that speech can be broken down into individual words (e.g., rhyming, singing, segmenting sentences) are at the less complex end of the continuum. Activities related to segmenting words into syllables and blending syllables into words (e.g., segmenting words into onsets and rimes, blending onsets and rimes into words) are at the middle of the continuum.

Phonemic awareness, which is the highest level of phonological awareness, is at the top of the continuum. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made up of individual sounds or phonemes that can be manipulated and new words are created by segmenting, blending, or changing individual phonemes within words. Chapter 5 is designed to move from less complex activities to more complex activities and follows this sequence: rhyming, onset and rime, and blending and segmenting activities.

FOCUS ON: Rhyming

Rhyming Assessment

1. Rhyming with Books

2. Rhyming Word Families

3. The Ants Go Marching

More About Rhyming

Rhyming Books and Web Sites

FOCUS ON: Onset–Rime

4. Who Is It?

5. I Spy

6. Creatures from Outer Space

7. Choose a Picture/Object

8. Find the Picture: Listening for Initial Consonant Sounds

9. Segmenting and Blending Words with Onsets and Rimes

10. Adding an Initial Consonant Sound

11. Adding a Final Consonant Sound

12. Deleting an Initial Consonant Sound

13. Deleting a Final Consonant Sound

14. Sound Stew

15. Stretchy Sounds

FOCUS ON: Segmenting and Blending

16. Segmenting and Blending Two-Sound Words

17. Stretchy Sounds: Segmenting and Blending Two-Sound Words

18. Segmenting and Blending Three-Sound Words

19. Stretchy Sounds: Segmenting and Blending Three-Sound Words

20. Segmenting and Bl...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Reproducible Materials
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Section I Overview
• Section II Classroom Activities
• Section III Home–School Connection Activities
• References
• Index