Chapter 12 Flashcards
What is Phonological Awareness?
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Awareness of the sounds and sound structure within a language.
Encompass both shallow and deep levels of awareness
What is Onset?
The consonant or consonant cluster that precedes the syllable nucleus (vowel)
What is Rime?
The syllable nucleus (vowel) + any subsequent consonants
What is Sublexical Awareness?
Awareness of a word’s phonological structure as distinct from meaning
What are Shallow Levels of Awareness?
Being able to tell the difference between different phonemes
What are Deep Levels of Awareness?
Being able to manipulate sounds (kids do this naturally, “wibbily-wobbily
When does Phonological Awareness begin?
Early in childhood (as early as 3 years)
Do stages of PA development often overlap?
Are they dependent on one another?
Yes
No
(A child may have strong rhyming skills and sound-deletion skills, but struggle with identifying initial phonemes in words.)
What contributes significantly to PA development?
Letter knowledge and vocabulary
Phonological awareness is a ______ and ______ skill. It requires knowledge of ______ independent of ______.
Sublexical
Metalinguistic
Linguistic units
Word meaning
What are PA skills are closely tied to?
What does this mean? (2)
The quality of a child’s phonological system
Children with impaired phonological systems (i.e., speech sound disorders) are at risk for impaired PA skills.
Children with SSD are also at risk for literacy deficits because of the link between PA skills and literacy
Phonological awareness is closely tied to ______.
Literacy skills
Researchers have reported a distinction between _____ and _____ literacy.
Emergent
Conventional
What is Emergent Literacy?
The preliminary skills necessary for literacy (letter knowledge, concepts about print, book structure, etc.)
What is Conventional Literacy?
Decoding and comprehension
Children with good emergent literacy and phonological awareness skills are likely to become _______.
Stronger readers
What are the four areas of Phonological Awareness?
Rhyme
Syllables
Alliteration
Phonemes
Rhyming typically is the __________.
First skill that children acquire
Shortly after children gain ___________, their awareness and identification of rhyming words may begin to emerge.
Productive use of oral language
When does Syllable Awareness begin to emerge?
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Following the development of rhyming skills
Around the age of 4
Syllable Awareness refers to a child’s ability to ______ within ______.
Identify syllables
Multisyllabic words
(Perhaps first in “easier” compound words such as baseball, cupcake, and rainbow).
Syllable awareness also includes segmenting ______ into their respective ______ and ______.
Words
Onset
Rimes