Phonemic awareness
instruction is part of a balanced literacy program, and
can be developed in several ways during shared reading and shared
writing.
Shared reading and shared writing typically occur during the language
arts time block, but may also occur during content-area learning.
Shared reading
is reading with children and involves the reading, re-reading
and shared reading of enlarged print (book, poem, nursery rhyme,
song) with a class or small group. Shared reading invites children
of varying levels of ability to participate in the reading experience.
Through repeated readings, children can develop many literacy concepts
including:
phonemic
awareness
letter/sound
symbol associations
the
meaning of print
concepts
about print
story
structure
reading
strategies and behaviors
genre
study
Shared writing
is writing with children. The teacher and students talk
about what to write. The teacher may act as a scribe or share the
pen with
the students. Shared writing introduces writing to students through
writing. Shared writing can focus on the following concepts:
how
to hear sounds in words
letter/sound
symbol associations
different
ways writers plan for writing
the
thought processes that occur as you write
strategies
writers use
concepts
about print
conventions
of written language
spelling
strategies
