Phonological Awareness

Sentence segmentation — Hearing individual words within a sentence, “My name is Sarah.” Have the children hold up one finger for each word in the sentence.

Blending — Blending smaller words to form a compound word. Tree + house = treehouse.

Segmenting — Breaking a compound word into two smaller words. Treehouse = Tree + house.

Deletion — Deleting one word from a compound word. “What is treehouse without the tree?” (house)

Phonological awareness: Extension: University of Nevada, Reno

Blending — Blend syllables into whole words. “Blend these two syllables together ‘An’ + ‘gie’ = ‘Angie’.”

Segmenting — Breaking words into syllables. “Clap the syllables in Angie’s name ‘An’ – ‘gie’.”

Deletion — Delete a syllable from a word. “Say ‘Angie’ without the ‘gie’ = ‘An’.”

Phonological awareness: Extension: University of Nevada, Reno

Blending — Blend the onset with the rime to create a word. ‘C’ + ‘at’ = ‘cat’.

Segmenting — Break the word into onset and rime. ‘Cat’ = ‘c’ + ‘at’.

Recognize Rhymes — Rhyming words are words that sound the same in the middle and at the end. Do these words rhyme – ‘cat’ and ‘hat’?

Create Rhymes — What words rhyme with ‘cat’?

Alliteration — Words that have the same first constant or vowel sound – ‘Silly Sally sang seven songs’.

Phonological awareness: Extension: University of Nevada, Reno

Start by focusing on the initial sounds of words (such as child’s name).

Isolation — What is the first sound in your name? ‘Peter’ = /p/.

Identify — Which names have the same first sound? ‘Peter’, ‘Michael’ and ‘Pamela’.

Blending — Blend sounds into words. ‘P’ + ‘e’ + ‘ter’ = ‘Peter’.

Segmenting — Separate the sounds within a word. ‘Peter’ = ‘P’ + ‘e’ + ‘ter’.

Phonological awareness: Extension: University of Nevada, Reno