Bolster High-Impact Instructional Strategies for Phonological Awareness Instruction Teachers are always looking for strategies that can be implemented immediately. Parents are always looking for ways they can support their child at home. This session will focus on 5 high-impact instructional strategies aligned with the science of reading and can be implemented immediately. Phonological awareness is the basic building block for literacy. Children must be able to rhyme, segment, blend and manipulate speech sounds in any given word. Phonological awareness is highly correlated to later literacy achievement. This session will provide practical activities from play-based strategies for younger children to multimodal structured practices for older children. Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: Define the elements of phonological awareness and why they are necessary for later literacy achievement in both reading and writing Distinguish between play-based strategies for younger children and multisensory structured strategies for older children and students with learning differences Practice implementing the high-impact instructional strategies for phonological awareness based upon the science of reading Robert Frantum-Allen Consultant, Special Education Leadership Solutions LLC