Assessment 1: Why is Phonemic Awareness Vital for Young Readers?
Outcomes
After completing this exercise, students will be able to:
- identify the importance of phonemic awareness and its vital role when
building a strong reading foundation
- analyze strategies and teaching techniques to enhance phonemic
awareness
- prepare lessons and strategies to reinforce phonemic awareness for
readers
Overview
In this assignment, you will identify and discuss why phonemic awareness is important for young readers, what it provides them to become successful readers, and strategies and activities used to reinforce awareness. You should include information from module readings to support your answers.
Instructions
After completion of the readings, please answer the questions and
discuss the 3 points below. When answering the following questions, please
provide complete sentences and make references to module readings by using this
template TL_assignment 01.
1. The Importance of Phonemic Awareness:
What importance does phonemic awareness play in building a reading foundation?
2. How does teaching phonemic awareness effect learners?:
What knowledge does phonemic awareness provide early learners and how does it
aide them in becoming strong readers?
3. Strategies and Activities:
What strategies and activities help reinforce phonemic awareness in reading
instruction
Submitting
To submit your assignment to your instructor, save your MS Word
file as a DOC/DOCX file and name in the following
manner: assign#1_lastnamefirstinitial (i.e., assign#1_squiresj.doc)
Submit your finished work to the assignment #1 link in the Submissions area of Moodle before 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST/EDT on the last day of Module 1.
Grading
Grades on this paper will be based on the following rubric. Read
it carefully to get a sense of the instructor’s specific
expectations.