3.3 Independent Student Practice with Syllable Awareness

Once your students have practiced the skills of syllable awareness with your support, they should continue to practice independently to build accuracy and fluency. Cumulatively, each skill in the phonological sequence should become automatic to support skilled word recognition.

You can use the following practice materials after students have become accurate with the skill during instruction. You'll need to teach how to do these activities before you send children to centers for independent practice. You may decide to model each one in whole group, model at your small group table, or have an assistant teacher demonstrate the activity in a small group.

Most of these activities can be tweaked and used to practice all phonological awareness skills. So once you teach it for one skill, children can easily adapt and accurately complete them for another skill. We have included recording sheets for you. It's important for children to capture their answers so you can monitor if they are practicing accurately and provide feedback and intervene if they're not.