Phonological Awareness

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Phonological Awareness

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umbrella term that includes the ability to hear individual words, syllables, and sounds in spoken language. It involves the understanding that words can be broken into parts.

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Before learning to read, children must understand that

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words are made up of phonemes, or sounds of speech

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Phonemic awareness is essentially

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a subcategory of phonological awareness.

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Phonological awareness encompasses tehe

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ability to recognize individual phonemes, syllables, adn words.

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Phonemic awareness is the

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ability to hear and use individual units of sounds or phonemes

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Levels of Phonological Awareness

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Rhyme Awareness/Alliteration -
Rhyme-hear when words rhyme or sound the same at the end
Alliteration - ability to identify when words have the same first sound, like candy and
cookie

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Rhyme Awareness/Alliteration

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Word Awareness

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Word Awareness - knowing that individual words make up a sentence.

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Onsets and Rimes

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Onset-RIme Production - hearing the sound or sounds before the vowel in a syllable as the onset, and the vowel sound and everything after it as the rhyme.
-onsets can be consonants, consonant digraphs, or consonant blends

blending and segmenting

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Syllable Awareness

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Syllable Awareness - ability to hear the individual units with vowel sounds that make up a word

segmenting and blending

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phonemic awareness

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ability to hear and use individual units of sound, or phonemes. Phonemes are the smallest individual sounds in a word.

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Phonemic awareness progression

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isolation
blending
segmentation
addition
deletion
substitution

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Phoneme isolation

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ability to separate a single sound in a position of a word. There’s initial, final, and medial isolation

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Phoneme blending

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ability to blend individual sounds to make a word

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phoneme segmentation

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ability to break down a word into separate sounds

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phoneme addition

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ability to add one phoneme to a word

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phoneme deletion

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ability to remove a phoneme from a word

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phoneme substitution

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ability to replace a phoneme in a word with another

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phoneme manipulation include

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additions, deletion, and subsitution

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Activities to support rhyme awareness

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incorporate songs and chants with rhyming words into your instruction

read aloud books with a predictable rhyming pattern. Stop and allow students to fill in the rhyming words during the read aloud.

say a word and use the thumbs up, thumbs down activity again, this time to indicate if the next word you say rhymes with the first one or not.

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Activities to support word awareness

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after reading a story to the students, go back and read a short sentence from the story. Have students clap for each word in the sentence.

Call on students to give a sentence to the rest of the class (or to a partner). The other students have to indicate how many words are in the sentence.

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Activities to support syllable awareness

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Have students practice clapping the number of syllables in students’ names along with other familiar, relevant words. The teacher needs first to model this strategy in order to show/explain what a syllable is so that students begin hearing and recognizing syllables in words.

Do an Elkonin box activity with syllables.

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Activities to support Onset-Rime

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provide an onset and a rime and ask students to blend them to make a word.

provide a word and have students identify the onset and the rime

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Activities to support phonemic awareness

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thumbs up thumbs down to indicate if two or three words start (or end) with the same sound.

Elkonin box activity. Move a token for each sound they hear