Sounds Abound: Multisensory Phonological Awareness

Sounds Abound: Multisensory Phonological Awareness

Ages 4-7 years

Students with language and learning disorders may rely heavily on visual and tactile modalities.  These lessons let them use their best learning senses to master beginning sounds, syllable segmentation and deletion, phoneme blending, sound identification, phoneme segmentation and deletion, and auditory completion.    

The book has 19 phoneme chapters.  Each chapter has five lessons and contains a teacher script.  The activity sequence is consistent from chapter to chapter.  The activities and teacher scripts are easily modified to meet individual or group needs.  The lessons are filled with a variety of learning strategies:

• manual signing
• motor cueing
• auditory attention activities
• tactile/kinesthetic activities
• visual matching
• writing activities
• rhymes and songs

The book has these reproducible lesson materials:

• 18 picture cards per phoneme letter (342 total)
• ABC puzzles
• ABC Kids (use as puppets and to reinforce concepts)
• ABC cards
• oral motor cards for each sound
• manual alphabet (sign language) charts

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