— Phonemic Awareness and Learning to Read

— Instruction in Phonemic Awareness

— Assessment of Phonemic Awareness

— General Instructional Issues

— The Lessons in This Book

— References

2. Introduction to the Whole-Class and Small-Group Lessons

— General Guidelines

— Sequence of Skills

— Plan of the Lessons

— Data on Effectiveness

— Assessment

— References

— Phonemic Awareness Assessment

3. The Whole-Class and Small-Group Lessons

— Lesson 1: Concept of Words

— Lesson 2: Rhyme Recognition and Discrimination

— Lesson 3: Rhyme Choice

— Lesson 4: Rhyme Production

— Lesson 5: Syllable Counting

— Lesson 6: Syllable Blending

— Lesson 7: Syllable Deletion

Lesson 8: Onset-Rime Blending

Lesson 9: Onset-Rime Blending

Lesson 10: Review of Rhyming and of Syllable and Onset-Rime Blending

Lesson 11: Initial Phoneme Identification

Lesson 12: Initial Phoneme Production

Lesson 13: Final Phoneme Identification

Lesson 14: Final Phoneme Production

Lesson 15: Medial Phoneme Isolation

Lesson 16: Phoneme Counting

Lesson 17: Blending Two- and Three-Phoneme Words

Lesson 18: Phoneme Blending

Lesson 19: Phoneme Segmentation

Lesson 20: Review of Initial, Medial, and Final Sounds and of Phoneme Counting, Blending, and Segmenting

4. Individualized Instruction in Phonemic Awareness

The Individualized Lessons

Assessment for the Individualized Lessons

Effectiveness of the Lessons

Getting Started

References

Assessment for Individualized Lessons

Progress Chart

5. The Individualized Lessons

Lesson 1: Beginning Sounds /m/ and /s/

Lesson 2: Beginning Sounds /f/ and /n/

Lesson 3: Beginning Sounds /p/ and /t/

Lesson 4: Review of Beginning Sounds

Lesson 5: Letters m and s for Beginning Sounds

Lesson 6: Letters f and n for Beginning Sounds

Lesson 7: Letters p and t for Beginning Sounds

Lesson 8: Letters m, s, and t for Beginning Sounds

Lesson 9: Letters n, p, and t for Beginning Sounds

Lesson 10: Review of Letters for Beginning Sounds

Lesson 11: Letters for n, p, t

Lesson 12: Ending Sounds /n/, /p/, /t/

Lesson 13: Ending Sounds /n/, /p/, /t/

Lesson 14: Beginning Letters m, s, f and Ending Letters n, p, t

Lesson 15: Beginning letters n, p, t and Ending Letters n, p, t

Lesson 16: Letters for Beginning and Ending Sounds

Posttest and Take-Home Tiny Books

6. Phoneme Characteristics and Lessons

Importance of Understanding Phoneme Production

Phonemes in Words

Similarities between Phonemes

Description of Phoneme Production

References

Lessons for Specific Phonemes

Phoneme /b/ (letter b)

Phoneme /k/ (letters c, k)

Phoneme /d/ (letter d)

Phoneme /f/ (letter f)

Phoneme /g/ (letter g)

Phoneme /h/ (letter h)

Phoneme /?/ (letter j)

Phoneme /l/ (letter l)

Phoneme /m/ (letter m)

Phoneme /n/ (letter n)

Phoneme /p/ (letter p)

Phoneme /r/ (letter r)

Phoneme /s/ (letter s)

Phoneme /t/ (letter t)

Phoneme /v/ (letter v)

Phoneme /w/ (letter w)

Phoneme /j/ (letter y)

Phoneme /z/ (letter z)

Phoneme / / (digraph sh)

Phoneme / / (digraph ch)

Phoneme / /('sing') (digraph ng)

Phonemes / ('thumb') /ð/ ('those') (digraph th)

Appendix: Books, Materials, and Alternative Books for Each Class Lesson

Index