What is Phonological Awareness?
Phonological awareness refers to the ability to segment and manipulate the sounds of oral language. It is not the same as phonics, which involves knowing how written letters relate to spoken sounds. Activities that develop phonological awareness in children provide practice with rhyme and with beginning sounds and syllables. (from ILA, International Literacy Association)
- Phonological awareness is not just phonics.
- Phonological awareness is auditory and does not involve words in print.
- Phonological awareness is not a curriculum.
Why is phonological awareness important?
“Research has shown that a child’s awareness of the sounds of spoken words is a strong predictor of his or her later success in learning to read.” (ILA)
The ability to hear the sounds in words and to isolate the sounds from one another can help a child become a reader. Even before he learns the letters of the alphabet, a child can say the sounds in his language. When he can hear the sounds in a word and tell where the sounds occur in the word, he is developing pre-reading skills.
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Listening Games: To sharpen student’s ability to attend selectively to sounds. Think of: environmental sounds, storytelling and sharing activities, read alouds, following oral directions, sequencing of events, and being a listening detective ~ detecting the mistake heard.
Have students participate in storytelling, listen to read alouds, follow oral directions, and sequence events.Identify animals by the sounds they make.
Rhyming:To use rhyme to introduce students to the sounds in words. Think of: nursery rhymes, text variations where a rhyming word can be inserted, finger puppets. *see (phonics-rimes).
Rhyme Hunt: I see something in this room that rhymes with rock. Continue in this manner. Say two words, and student gives thumbs up/thumbs down if the words rhyme or not.
Ask What rhymes with top and starts with /h/? What rhymes with rack and starts with /t/? Continue with these riddles.
Sing new words to the tune of If You’re Happy and You Know It: Did you ever see a bear in a chair? (Replace bear and chair with different words the next time around.) Did you ever see a bear in a chair? No, I never. No, I never. No, I never. No, I never. No, I never saw a bear in a chair. Did you ever see a bell in a ______.. . . “ Continue the song in this manner.
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