In Growing Through Games, all sessions are designed to be facilitated by a teacher in small group because “small-group instruction is more effective in helping your students acquire phonemic awareness and learn to read. Small group instruction may be more effective than individual or whole-group instruction because children often benefit from listening to their classmates respond and receive feedback from the teacher.”

Levels of Phonemic Awareness provide a framework for planning and designing comprehensive instruction. These include sound matching, counting, blending, substitution, and segmentation. In Growing Through Games, each game, or small group session, can be presented at three different levels. Although all will address multiple levels of phonological and phonemic awareness, some will highlight foundational competencies.

These games are meant to provide exposure with explicit instruction and include word awareness and the understanding that words are made of smaller parts, (rhyming, alliteration, and blending and segmenting). These competencies are addressed in quality preschools and the beginning of kindergarten, or programs servicing three, four, five, and six year olds.

“If teachers aren’t motivated to teach this skill, or if children aren’t motivated to learn it, then attention to it might be slighted. Some forms of teaching and learning are interesting and fun whereas other forms are tedious and boring. (National Reading Panel, 2001)”

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Good News! Growing Through Games: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness is on the list of approved educational materials for Louisiana's Reading First.

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