Phonological Awareness

Most materials for developing phonological awareness are directed at young children.  Cecile Spector, a speech-language pathologist for more than 35 years, has provided us with creative activities that are interesting and fun.  She develops vocabulary and necessary language skills while building an understanding of humor and what makes a joke funny.  That metalinguistic awareness can be an asset as students move toward adolescence and reliance on humor in so many social situations.  Providing jokes and riddles increases student awareness of the phonemes that make up words and capitalizes on their love of humor.  Units include sound categorization, phoneme segmentation, and metalinguistic games with challenge activities for those who need a bit more.  Each lesson contains facilitator notes with examples for discussion followed by activity sheets to practice the skills.  If nothing else, this book is fun just for the jokes! 

Spector, C. (2009) Sounds like Fun: Activities for Developing Phonological Awareness, Revised Edition Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing