Use the following framework to plan a balanced literacy experience for your class. These routines work together to help the children enjoy literature and take their first steps toward becoming lifelong readers and writers. Choose to use as many activities each day as the children’s needs and time permits. The framework of Phonemic Awareness, Sound-Letter Awareness Reading Workshop, Signing-In, Writing Workshop, Fine Motor Skills, and Listening/Speaking will help the children take pleasure in the language surrounding them as they begin their journey of literacy development.
Phonemic Awareness: Activities in this routine will help children discover how oral language works. It is essential for children to hear and manipulate oral sound patterns before they relate them to letters. Children need to understand spoken language before they can recognize words in print. Phonemic awareness is a precursor to phonics instruction which associates sounds to the alphabet. The objective is not for the children to recognize the differences in sounds but to know how sounds can be manipulated. These stepping stones of phonemic awareness are sequential. After the children are aware of the words they speak, they hear syllables, followed by chunks (onsets and rimes) and then the individual sounds “inside” words. There are 4 phonemic awareness activities corresponding to each theme book. Mastery of these levels is not expected in kindergarten. Phonemic awareness is an ability that takes time to develop. Children learn best by being exposed to a variety of experiences rather than repeated drills.
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