The Literacy View Phonemic Awareness Guide: Is It Accurate? Science of Reading Truth Bomb for Educators (140)
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Sep 9, 2025 Dr. Marianne Rice, a literacy researcher and advocate for print-based phonics, teams up with Harriet Chinettos, a classroom practitioner focused on speech-to-print pedagogy. They dive into the accuracy of the 2024 Phonemic Awareness Guide, questioning mixed messages that confuse educators. Discover why phonemic awareness is vital, practical routines for instruction, and the advantages of teaching letters alongside phonemic tasks. The duo also tackles misconceptions around phonics and emphasizes the importance of adaptive teaching to meet student needs.
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Combine Phonemic Awareness And Letters
- Combining phonemic awareness with letters is more efficient than separating them into oral-only lessons.
- Print-based PA produces stronger reading and spelling outcomes than oral-only PA alone.
Transition Fast From Tokens To Letters
- Move quickly from tokens to letters and connect letter tiles to taught phonemes during lessons.
- Use letters to provide learners with mental symbols that speed phoneme learning and retention.
Make Elkonin Boxes Routine And Accessible
- Integrate letter-sound instruction into Elkonin box activities and accelerate replacing tokens with graphemes.
- Tape Elkonin boxes to student tables to make phoneme segmentation and mapping immediately available.
