PP7 and PP8

Question 1

Phonological Awareness

Answer 1

Phonological Awareness is the ability to attend to and make judgments about the sound structure of language (Anthony & Lonigan, 2004).
Possible activities:
dividing words into syllables
identifying and generating rhymes
matching words with the same beginning sound
Blending words by onset and rime

Question 2

Phonemic Awareness

Answer 2

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to isolate and manipulate individual sounds (or phonemes), that are important in early word decoding (Justice & Schuele, 2004).

Question 3

Remember, phonological awareness develops in stages:

Answer 3

Phoneme awareness and identification
Letter identification
Encoding and decoding print

Developing phonological awareness requires considerable “meta” skill!

Question 4

Orthographic awareness

Answer 4

How a letter or letters may represent speech sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzJtxtOAk9E&pbjreload=101

How we represent sounds that go beyond one-to-one correspondence, such as spelling of long vowels and use of consonant doubling.

How letters can and cannot be combined.

Knowledge of positional and contextual constraints (a.k.a. orthotactic rules) on the use of letters, such as not beginning a word with tch.

Question 5

Semantic awareness

Answer 5

Semantic awareness basically allows a child to develop a greater vocabulary and understanding of how words are associated with one another (Paul, et al., 2018).
Remember, this is not just about reciting definitions of novel words; this area is about developing nuanced understanding of how words are connected.
Think about semantic relationships (think about the –nyms):
Synonyms
Antonyms

Question 6

Morphological awareness

Answer 6

Morphological awarenessis explicitly thinking about the smallest units of meaning in language, which are called morphemes. These units include root words that can stand alone as words (free morphemes), and all the affixations (bound morphemes) that can be added (International Dyslexia Association, 2017).
At this time, there in no formal, dedicated test to assess this skill.
Consider the role of phonology and the production of affixations.

Question 7

Syntactic awareness

Answer 7

Syntactic awareness is a metalinguistic skill that is defined as the conscious ability to manipulate or judge word-order within the context of a sentence based on the application of grammatical rules (Bowey & Patel, 1988; Cain, 2007).