Phonics & Word Identification.

Catalog description

This course will look at the importance of phonological awareness in an elementary school setting. It will develop the understanding of different ways that oral language can be manipulated and divided into smaller components. At the less complex end of the continuum, strategies will be taught that demonstrate an awareness that speech can be broken down into individual words. At the top of the continuum, phonemic awareness strategies will be taught to demonstrate an understanding that words are made up of individual sounds or phonemes that can be manipulated and that by segmenting, blending, or changing individual phonemes within words, new words are created.