What is Phonological Awareness?
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in spoken language. It's a foundational reading skill that helps children develop the ability to decode, blend, and read words.
Phonological awareness can be taught at different levels, including:
Syllables: Children can clap or tap each syllable in a word.
Onsets and rimes: The onset is the first sound of a word before the vowel, and the rime is the rest of the word.
Phonemes: The individual sounds in a word. Phoneme blending is putting sounds together to form a word, while phoneme segmentation is breaking a word down into its individual sounds.
Other phonological awareness skills include:
- Rhyming
- Alliteration
- Counting
- Categorizing
- Segmenting
- Manipulating sounds by adding, deleting, or substituting
Phonological awareness begins to develop before formal schooling and continues to develop through third grade and beyond. It's an important first step for students to become lifelong readers.
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