Phonological Awareness Flashcards
Phonological Awareness
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.
Before learning to read, children must understand that
words are made up of phonemes, or sounds of speech
Phonemic awareness is essentially
a subcategory of phonological awareness.
Phonological awareness encompasses tehe
ability to recognize individual phonemes, syllables, adn words.
Phonemic awareness is the
ability to hear and use individual units of sounds or phonemes
Levels of Phonological Awareness
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
Rhyme Awareness/Alliteration
Word Awareness
Word Awareness - knowing that individual words make up a sentence.
Onsets and Rimes
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
Syllable Awareness
Syllable Awareness - ability to hear the individual units with vowel sounds that make up a word
segmenting and blending
phonemic awareness
ability to hear and use individual units of sound, or phonemes. Phonemes are the smallest individual sounds in a word.
Phonemic awareness progression
isolation
blending
segmentation
addition
deletion
substitution
Phoneme isolation
ability to separate a single sound in a position of a word. There’s initial, final, and medial isolation
Phoneme blending
ability to blend individual sounds to make a word
phoneme segmentation
ability to break down a word into separate sounds
phoneme addition
ability to add one phoneme to a word
phoneme deletion
ability to remove a phoneme from a word
phoneme substitution
ability to replace a phoneme in a word with another
phoneme manipulation include
additions, deletion, and subsitution
Activities to support rhyme awareness
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.
Activities to support word awareness
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.
Activities to support syllable awareness
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.
Activities to support Onset-Rime
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
Activities to support phonemic awareness
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
