Strategies to Promote PA

What are some strategies teachers can use to promote students' phonological and phonemic awareness?

Engaging students in language play through songs, rhymes, and read aloud helps children hear the bigger sound units in our language.  Having students build words based on common phonograms (i.e., -it, -and, and -ed) can support students' understanding of onset-rime. Blending and segmenting activities build phonemic awareness. Specific activities, such as the use of Elkonin Boxes, support these as well. Picture cards are extremely useful in helping students manipulate language. Here is link to other phonemic awareness activities: http://phonologicalawareness.org/6.html.