Phonological Awareness

Question 1

What is phonological awareness?

Answer 1

A metalinguistic skill enabling children to analyze the structure of language

Question 2

What are examples of PA?

Answer 2

• Ability to attend to and make judgments about the sound structure of language, such as dividing words into syllables, rhymes, etc.
• Ability to isolate and manipulate individual phonemes = phonemic awareness.

Question 3

How do you teach Phonological Awareness?

Answer 3

Like teaching problem-solving and direct modeling

• SLP introduces a word, comments on a sound or syllable, as “The first sound in time is /t/
• SLP repeats the process and has child repeat the sound or syllable
• SLP asks the child a question, as in “What’s the first sound in time?”

Question 4

What can PA include?

Answer 4

Phoneme awareness
Letter identification
Encoding/decoding print

Question 5

Give examples of PA within play activities

Answer 5

• Phoneme detection:” “Find the word that starts with…Does …begin with?”
• Phoneme categorization: “find toys with that begins with…”
• Phoneme isolation: “What sound does pony start with?”

Question 6

Literacy supports which 3 types of strategies?

Answer 6

1. Goal specific (re-reading difficult passages, summarizing, using context to uncover word meaning…)
2. Monitor and repair (reader decides if passage makes sense and if not, what needs to be repaired…)
3. Packaging (planning what to do, how to do it through the other 2 strategies)