phonemic awareness I
Week: One
Class: Primary Two
Topic: phonemic awareness I
Objectives: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to:
- Learn sounds through songs.
- 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:/.

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?