Phonemic Awareness Interventions

FastBridge has organized its guidance and resources for reading instruction and intervention into the six domains shown below, covering all five areas in the National Reading Panel Report (2000), including Phonemic Awareness. The interventions are included as part of the Instruction Plans in the Screening to Intervention Report for Reading (s2i-R). There are both whole- and small-group lesson materials available in the Training and Resources section of the FastBridge system. Each intervention includes eight sections and users are encouraged to examine all the sections of an intervention prior to using it with students. This article provides information about the Phonemic Awareness interventions and resources for teaching students from diverse backgrounds.

Phonemic Awareness includes an understanding that:

• there are individual sounds in words, and
• words can be split apart into their individual sounds.

Phonemic Awareness is a foundational skill necessary for reading proficiency. Additional information about how best to teach Phonemic Awareness as part of a comprehensive reading curriculum is found in the free practice guides:

• Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
• Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades

The FastBridge Screening to Intervention Report for Reading (s2i-R) provides the best guidance for which interventions to use with whole classes as well as small groups. Go to the Training & Resources tab and select Phonemic Awareness. The available FastBridge Phonemic Awareness interventions include the following:

• Beginning Word Awareness
• Rhyming Words
• Deletion Using 2-Syllable Words
• Deletion Using 3-Syllable Words
• Onset Sounds
• Onset-Rime: Onset Deletion
• Onset-Rime: Rime Deletion
• Onset-Rime: Onset Substitution
• Onset-Rime: Rime Substitution
• Manipulating Initial Blends: Deletion
• Manipulating Initial Sounds: Substitution
• Manipulating Final Sounds: Deletion
• Manipulating Medial Vowels: Substitution
• Manipulating Initial Blends (Second Sound): Deletion
• Manipulating Initial Blends (Second Sound): Substitution
• Manipulating Final Sounds: Substitution
• Manipulating Ending Blends (Medial Phoneme): Deletion
• Manipulating Ending Blends (Medial Phoneme): Substitution
• Blending & Segmenting Sounds