Purposeful Play For Early Childhood Phonological Awareness 2nd Edition

Build phonological awareness in a fun and meaningful way! This book provides pre-K through first grade students with over 80 research-based early childhood activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and engaging with the sounds of language.

Provide students with purposeful practice and fun activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and interacting with the sounds of language. Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness offers 70 lessons that are grouped according to phonological skills and include kinesthetic, visual, and aural representations. Through singing songs, engaging in role-playing games, or tossing balls of yarn, students will gain quality speech practice and learn how to isolate sounds and recognize individual words, syllables, rhymes, and phonemes. Alternate suggestions at the end of each activity are also included to make accommodating modifications for diverse learners. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness Standards.

Interact with language in a fun and meaningful way! This book provides students with over 80 early childhood activities that focus on engaging with the sounds of language. From singing songs to participating in role-playing games, students will have fun and develop important language skills. Students will gain quality speech and listening practice while learning about individual words, syllables, rhymes, phonemes, and graphemes. The book also contains helpful teacher and family resources and tools to support diverse learners. Build phonological awareness for pre-K through first grade students with this exciting product!

Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness provides 70 activities designed to help students detect and manipulate the sounds of language. Whether through singing songs, engaging in role-playing games, or tossing balls of yarn, every activity provides fun ways for children to interact with language and one another while offering explicit support for developing phonological awareness. Use fun, engaging activities, grouped according to phonological skills, that build sequentially and reinforce previously learned skills while introducing new skills. Address how to isolate sounds in words so young children can hear and recognize individual words, syllables, initial sounds, rhymes, and phonemes. Pronunciation guides give explicit instruction so that all sounds are correctly articulated.

Play is an important vehicle for learning in the early years. With intentional planning frameworks, this resource provides teachers with tools and strategies to organize and develop curriculum around high-level, purposeful play. Practical application techniques help teachers create a cycle of planning and observation as they use a play-based curriculum to help young children thrive in the classroom. Gaye Gronlund is an early childhood education consultant who trains early childhood educators across the country. She is the author of six books.

Offering an accessible overview of phonemic awareness, this book provides elementary teachers with scripted lesson plans, progress charts, reproducible forms, and "phun" activities for teaching particular phonemes.

Publisher description

Early Childhood Play Matters provides guidance and many practical ideas on implementing the Walker Learning Approach within early childhood learning practices.