A multimedia approach to phonemic awareness instruction offers a way to address young students' learning needs and improve their reading abilities.
Children come to school with varying degrees of reading preparation.
Some children enter kindergarten and the primary grades with limited spoken or written English skills. Teaching the full range of phonemic awareness skills segmenting, blending, counting sounds, rhyming, manipulating, identifying phonemes and identifying the position of sounds in a word - is difficult without using a multimedia approach. Every child has his or her own learning preferences. Some learn best by seeing, others by doing, while others learn best by listening. Innovative teachers integrate visual, tactile and auditory learning into lesson plans.