by Dr. Garforth | Apr 24, 2020 | Phonological Fridays, Uncategorized
Happy #PhonologicalFriday! This week we will discuss what Graphophonemic Awareness is. First, let us review a few key concepts: A phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of speech. Phonemic awareness is the ability to manipulate sounds within a word. A...
by Dr. Garforth | Feb 14, 2020 | Phonological Fridays
Happy #phonologicalfriday everyone! Happy Valentine’s Day too! This week we are going to continue with ideas for promoting phonological awareness with your students. Before discussing the lesson, we first should review a few concepts to make sure we are all on...
by Dr. Garforth | Feb 8, 2020 | Phonological Fridays
Happy #phonologicalfriday everyone! For the next few weeks, #phonologicalfriday will be focusing on the different whole class and small group activities that can be done with students to work on different aspects of phonological awareness. This week, our focus...
by Dr. Garforth | Jan 17, 2020 | Phonological Fridays, Reading Science
Happy first #phonologicalfriday of 2020 everyone! I hope you have had a good start to the New Year. I have several hopes for the new decade, and you can help me with one of them! I hope that more educators will learn about the important role phonological...
by Dr. Garforth | Sep 13, 2019 | Phonological Fridays, Reading Science
Happy #phonologicalfriday! When begining your quest to learn about teaching phonics, there are several terms that you need to know. This week the focus is on the difference between consonant blends and digraphs (and trigraphs). There are many words in the English...
