Phonological Awareness

Question 1

What is phonological awareness?

Answer 1

It involves understanding that speech can be broken down into smaller parts.
Sentences into words. Words into syllables, onset-rime and phonemes.

It is the ability to attend to the phonological or sound structure of language as distinct from its meaning.

Not connected to letters - sound only

Question 2

What are the levels of phonological awareness?

Answer 2

Listening
Rhyme
Sentence
Syllables
Onset-rime
Phonemes

Less complex - more complex

Question 3

Phonological awareness: Listening

Answer 3

Tuning into the sounds of language - rhythm/intonation.

Question 4

Phonological awareness: Rhyme

Answer 4

Hearing and identifying words that rhyme

cat; bat; fat

Question 5

Phonological awareness: Sentence/Words

Answer 5

Segmentation - hear and identify the individual words in sentences.
the-dog-is-on-the-couch

Question 6

Phonological awareness: Syllables

Answer 6

Hear and identify individual syllables in words.

Question 7

Phonological awareness: Onset-rime

Answer 7

Separate the initial sound (onset) from the rest of the word (rime)
C-at
M-at

Question 8

Phonological awareness: Phonemes

Answer 8

Segment a word into its individual sounds (phonemes); blend individual phonemes together and say the word

Question 9

What is the sequence of phonological awareness development?

Answer 9

1. can recognise whether two words rhyme
2. can think of a rhyme for a simple word.
3. can isolate and pronounce the initial sound of a word
4. can blend the sounds in two phoneme words (/b/ /oi/ for boy)
   Can isolate and pronounce all the sounds in two- and three-phoneme words.
5. can blend the sounds in four-phoneme words containing initial consonant blends
6. can isolate and pronounce the sounds in four-phoneme words that contain inital blends (/c/ /r/ /a/ /b/)
7. can blend the souns of four- and five–phoneme words containing initial and final blends (crisp).