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Effects of Explicit Instruction in Phonemic Awareness on a Student with Auditory Processing and Spelling Difficulties

Jackson

• Fifth Grade student at O.L.G
• "Urgent Intervention" reading level
• Struggles to identify specific sounds and correlating letters in words
• May have difficulty with auditory processing.

Exploratory Question: What auditory processing and phonemic awareness strategies and adjustments can be made to positively affect the language arts performance of a fifth grade student who is below grade level?

Effective Strategies

Effective Strategies for Phonemic Instruction
Phoneme isolation: recognizing the individual sounds in words.
Phoneme identity: recognizing a sound which different words have in common
Phoneme categorization: recognizing a word which does not belong in a sequence of multiple words.

Effective Strategies for Phonemic Instruction
Phoneme isolation: recognizing the individual sounds in words.
Phoneme identity: recognizing a sound which different words have in common
Phoneme categorization: recognizing a word which does not belong in a sequence of multiple words.

Additional Strategies
Phoneme blending: listening to a sequence of sounds and putting them together to form a word
Phoneme segmentation: breaking a word into sounds
Phoneme deletion: recognizing the remaining word after one phoneme is removed
(Musselwhite & McCarthy-Meyer, 2016).

Basic Interventions
*Adjusted Spelling List
*Opportunity to Spell Words Orally

Pre-Intervention Scores

• Classwork: Week 1 5/5= 100%, Week 2 5/5= 100%, Week 3 5/5= 100%
• Written Test Scores: Week 1 3/10= 30%, Week 2 0/10= 0%, Week 3 6/10= 60%
• Oral Test Scores: Week 1 7/10= 70%, Week 2 9/10= 90%, Week 3 10/10= 100%

Interventions

One intervention that was implemented for Jackson was the "Banana Grams" intervention.

In this intervention Jackson would spell each of the words using "Banana Grams" tiles.

After building each word, Jackson would watch me break it down into syllables and then he would repeat them.

The intervention was completed with two of our lists over the last month (This was largely due to external factors)

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