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phonemic awareness I

ClassNotes Team 1 MIN READUPDATED 5 JUL 2026

Week: One

Class: Primary Two

Topic: phonemic awareness     I

Objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to:

  1. Learn sounds through songs.
  1. Repeat sounds they hear.

Reference material: wall chart showing the rhymes, a flash card showing the keywords in the songs, approved workbook.

Content:

Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of words.

The levels of phonological awareness are, from simplest to most complex: syllables, onset–rime, and phonemes. Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words, e.g. car as in /a:/ beat as in /I:/.

 

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Evaluation:

Read the following.

Pease porridge hot

Pease porridge cold

Pease porridge in the pot

Nine days old

Some like it hot

Some like it cold

Some like it in the pot

Nine days old

Which words in the Activity poem rhyme with got and told?