How does Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself address phonemic awareness?
Throughout the Discover Intensive Phonics program, phonemic awareness is taught with the introduction of letters/letter combinations (graphemes) followed by the sounds (phonemes) in each of the lessons. The program teaches how to identify the sounds when decoding real and nonsense words. With the newly revised version of the Discover Intensive Phonics materials (software and teacher direct-instruction materials), a phonemic awareness component has been added. In the computer software (elementary version 4.0), phonemic awareness activities and assessments have been added. These assessments and activities cover similar concepts as those presented in DIBELS. A phonemic awareness section, which provides lessons, activities, and assessments to aid teachers in phonemic awareness instruction, has been added to the teacher direct instruction volumes. A new tool called Word Builder has been created to help strengthen phonemic awareness through phoneme identification, substitution, and manipulat
