Phonemic Awareness Development Activity Report

Your Name: Angela Graziano

Name of Activity Used: Segmentation Cheer
Age and Grade Level of Reader: First Grade (Ages 6-7)

Write a Description of the Way You Conducted the Activity: I wrote the segmentation cheer on the smartboard and then practiced
with students a few times. I only used the first two lines of the cheer. I then used CVC words with the short i, since the vowel we
are working on this week is i. I used the following words- big, sit, dig, rib, kid, sip. The students then shouted out the sounds in
isolation and blended the word at the conclusion. We then tapped the sounds down our arm and blended the word afterward for
more repetition and practice.

How Successful Was the Lesson? The lesson was very successful and I think it drilled the short i sound, which many students
mixed up with the short e sound. I think this will also help with their spelling words this week. One student came up to me later in
the reading block and told me that she said the cheer in her head and sounded out one of the short i spelling words to help her
spell it.

What adaptations would you make to this lesson/activity? Like mentioned above, knowing my first graders and their attention
span and memorization ability, I only taught them the first two lines of the cheer. (I would do that again) In addition, I think some
students would benefit from doing this at the beginning of their small reading group with words that are on their reading level. For
example, some students are able to read words with digraph and trigraphs, so they could do a whisper cheer quietly with some
words that are in their leveled reader that we are working on.