Kindergarden Unit 2 Assessment and Remediation Guide

70 Kindergarten | Unit 2 Assessment and Remediation Guide

Phonological Awareness: Phonemes (Blending with Arm Motions)

Focus:

Phonemes

(Blending with

Arm Motions) Teaching Materials

Warm-Up

Note: This

Warm-Up is a

variation of the

Name Blending

Unit 2 Pausing

Point under

Blend Two or

Three Sounds to

Form a Word

Objective: Prompt student attention to speech segments (at the phoneme

level).

Exercise: Play Do You Know? using:

Two-phoneme names: Joe, May, Ty, Eve, Sue

Three-phoneme names: Drew, Eli, Ava, Jill, Paige, Jim

Tell students you will say, “Do you know...” followed by a name broken into

sounds. For example, “Do you know /s/ /oo/?” (Sue).

Encourage students to use the fists blending motion for the two-phoneme

names and the arm blending motion for the three-phoneme names. (Be

sure to tell students ahead of time whether the name will have two or three

phonemes.)

Remind students not to shout out the answer. Instead, if they know someone

with that name, show it with a thumbs-up. If they do not know someone with

that name, show it with a thumbs-down.

Students with thumbs-up can take turns saying who they know (e.g., Sue is

in our class, I have an aunt Sue, Sue is Ms. Marble’s first name, etc.).

Continue with another name.

Names List

Sample Remedial Lesson