Phonological awareness resources
Professor Gail Gillon is well known internationally for her research in reading disorder and the prevention of reading difficulties for young children at risk.
Her innovative work in phonological awareness intervention has received particular international acclaim and acknowledged through prestigious American research awards. Her work has been widely published in leading research journals in speech language pathology, education, and reading.
She has presented numerous invited conference presentations and keynote addresses throughout the world.
Gail Gillon
Director of the UC Child Well-being Research Institute
Professor
Her resources are available below:
Programmes
- Alphabet letters for wooden blocks
- 3 rhyme bingo boards
- 2 yellow rhyme picture sheets to be cut into cards
- 1 rhyme word sheet
- 1 phoneme analysis (discrimination) board
- 3 phoneme segmentation bingo boards
- 3 phoneme segmentation picture sheets to be cut into cards
- 9 phoneme identity cards
- 6 phoneme segmentation and blending sheets
- 6 sound symbol boards (plus 2 Maori picture boards)
- 3 sheets of alphabet letters to be cut into cards
- 2 word bingo boards (to be cut in half) and 2 matching word sheets for cards
- 5 picture game sheets
- 3 tracking sounds changes sheets and 1 blank sheet for individualised lists
- 1 reward poster
- 1 time chart
Integrated Phonological Awareness Manual Sept 07
- Alphabet cards
- Characters animal friends
- Extra speech cards - Ch
- Extra speech cards - L cluster
- Extra speech cards - Sh
- Large letter card examples
- Assessment probes rhyme and phoneme
- Assessment probes for 5- 8 year old children
- Assessment probe instructions
- Phoneme Identity Boards
- Phoneme Segmentation Picture scenes
- Segmentation blending boards
- Sound symbol games with speech targets
- Sound symbol photo boards
- Speech target cards 6 processes
Assessment
Resources
- Phonological Awareness: From Research to Practice, 2nd Edition (book)
International purchases: http://app.bronto.com/public/previewmessage/email/11605/1580761/html
University of Canterbury Book Shop: Phonological Awareness From Research to Practice 2ed - Phoneme Awareness Assessment Probes (Adapted from Stahl and Murray, 1994)
- A linguistic awareness intervention program for older children
- Sutherland & Gillon (2006) Experimental tasks
- Phonological awareness screening forms
- Language Sampling Protocol
- Narrative language sampling photos
- Speech to Print Profile, Pg 1
- Speech to Print Profile, Pg 2
- Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts - New Zealand version (SALT - NZ)
Literature
Handouts
ASHA 2017 PowerPoint slides - The effectiveness of phonological awareness instruction to enhance early literacy success for young children most at risk.
ASHA (2013) Short Course Power Point Slides
Phonological Awareness One Day Workshop (2013) - Phonological Awareness: Effective practices for classroom teachers handout
Resource Teachers of Literacy Conference (2013) - Phonological and morphological awareness workshop handout
Literacy and Learning Symposium Handouts
Day One Thursday 26th October 2017
Keynote speaker - Professor Laura Justice - Fostering reading at home: overcoming barriers that impede parent-child reading
- Professor Laura Justice - Fostering reading at home: overcoming barriers that impede parent-child reading
- Professor Bill Tunmer - The cognitive foundations of reading and its acquisition: a conceptual framework for reading intervention
- Professor Gail Gillon - Integrated phonological awareness and vocabulary intervention to facilitate early literacy success
- Professor John Everatt and Professor Malt Joshi - Interventions for children with dyslexia from different language backgrounds and with additional emotional/behavioural difficulties
- Professor James Chapman - Phonics use in literacy instruction: when intention and implementation collide
- Dr Karyn Carson - Raising school-entry reading readiness through preschool-wide phonological awareness and phonics instruction
- Professor Barbara Dodd and Dr Daniela Gatt - Identifying delayed bilingual development early: the case of children growing up in Maltese-speaking families
Day Two Friday 27th October 2017
Keynote speaker - Lynne-Harata Te Aika (Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu) - Intergenerational bilingual literacy
- Professor Ilsa Schwarz - Teacher talk: the oral and text-based vocabulary used by kindergarten teachers.
- Professor Philip Schluter - Do pre-school socio-demographic and health developmental indicators predict the future utilization of early primary school-based literacy interventions: a national population study
- Associate Professor Brigid McNeill - Literacy development in children with speech and language difficulties
- Distinguished Professor Niki Davis - Emergent bilinguals in a digital world
- Associate Professor Sonja Macfarlane - Creating an authentic research community: Engaging whānau in a National Science Challenge