{"id":161,"date":"2026-09-18T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/sokugawas\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:18:30","slug":"our-learning-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/sokugawas\/our-learning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Learning (Literacy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phonemic Awareness<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

We began working on phonemic awareness on September 16. Please note that reading and writing go hand in hand. Most often, children will become fluent readers before becoming fluent writers. However, the two go hand in hand and the skills we learn for reading are necessary skills for writing. Please look at the list below to see what we have been working on.\u00a0 We talked about how letters have names, like we do, but they also have a sound that they say (these are called phonemes).\u00a0 The slant marks on either side of the letter are called \u201cvirgules\u201d (\/_\/) and they indicate the sound that they make.\u00a0 Letters are either vowels or consonants. The placement of their tongue, whether the mouth is open or closed, and whether we blow through our teeth change the sound of the letter. Formulation of the sounds (articulation) is important when speaking, but it is important in reading and writing as well.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The literacy bag has a hearing phone, a mirror, and a reading finger (which will be used later in the year). The hearing phone helps to amplify the sound and the mirror helps student to ensure proper mouth formation, which include the tongue placement, lip formation, and how the air is traveling. Sometimes air comes just from our mouth making a softer sound (such as \/s\/ or \/f\/) or it comes from our lungs passing the vocal cords which make the sound louder as it vibrates through our vocal cords.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Letter Sounds\/Phonemes<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Reading individual sounds (phonemes) helps from left to right is the beginning stage of reading.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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As of Oct. 5, we have been practicing making words (real words and nonsense words) remembering to go left to right picking one letter from the first column, one letter from the middle column, and one letter from the third column. Then they read it back to me. This skill is important as the beginning stages of reading, but it is also important when we are trying to sound out words to spell unfamiliar words.<\/p>\n

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