Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Including Emergent Literacy Flashcards
Overarching skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language, including parts of words, syllables, onsets, and rimes.
Phonological Awareness
Understanding the individual sounds (phonemes) in words. For example, students with this skill can separate the sounds in the word cat into three distinct phonemes: /k/, /æ/, and /t/
Phonemic Awareness
Understanding the relationship between sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) representing those sounds. For example, when a student sees the letter c is followed by an e, i, or y, the student knows the c makes an /s/ sound (like in the word cycle)
Phonics
The two subskills of phonological awareness
phonemic awareness and phonics
What is the role of phonological and phonemic awareness in reading development?
these skills help students develop the foundational skills needed for word recognition, spelling, syllabication, fluency, and reading comprehension. These skills must be focused on explicitly since they are not innate.
T or F: reading and spelling are skills that are taught implicitly
F: these skills are not natural or easily acquired. Therefore, they must be taught explicitly.
What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics skills?
Phonemic awareness includes the skills that encompass the smallest units of sounds in words. Think “sounds” only.
Phonics is understanding letter-sound correspondence. Students must see the letters or words to engage in phonics.
putting all the sounds in words together, like /p//a//t/ –> pat
blending
beginning consonant and consonant cluster
onset
vowel and consonants that follow the onset consonant cluster
rimes
the repetition of sounds in different words; students listen to the sounds within words and identify word parts
rhyming
breaking a word apart
segmenting
to separate word parts or to isolate a single sound in the word
isolation
omitting a sound in a word
deletion
when students replace one sound with another in a word
substitution
the ability to string together the sounds that each letter stands for in a word
blending
What are the 6 levels of the phonemic awareness continuum?
(from least to most complex)
1) phoneme isolation
2) blending
3) segmenting
4) addition
5) deletion
6) substitution
when students hear and separate out individual sounds in words
phoneme isolation
when students can combine sounds in a word
blending
when students can divide the word into individual sounds
segmenting
when students can manipulate a word by adding a sound that is not originally in the word
addition
when students manipulate the word by deleting sounds to make a new word
deletion
the highest level of phonemic awareness because students not only have to identify the sounds and locate the sounds in the word, but they also have to switch them with other sounds
substitution
What makes the last three levels of the phonemic awareness continuum “complex”?
Addition, Deletion, and Substitution are considered complex because they involve manipulation (changing the words)
T or F: students learn medial (middle) sounds before beginning and ending sounds in words
F: students learn beginning and ending sounds first
what are the two most complex levels of the phonemic awareness continuum?
deletion and substitution
What are the 6 levels of the phonological awareness continuum?
(from least to most complex)
1) rhyme
2) alliteration
3) sentence segmentation
4) syllable segmentation
5) onset/rime blending & segmentation
6) phoneme manipulation
when students can match ending sounds of words (as in bat, hat, cat).
rhyme
when students can identify and produce words with the same initial sound (as in sat, see, silly).
alliteration