Phonological/ phonemic Awareness

Phonological Awareness

is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words. Examples include being able to identify words that rhyme, recognizing alliteration, segmenting a sentence into words, identifying the syllables in a word, and blending and segmenting onset-rimes. The most sophisticated — and last to develop — is called phonemic awareness.

Phonemic Awareness 

is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. This includes blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds, and deleting and playing with the sounds in spoken words.

Phonological Awareness  Activities

Alliteration - the repetition of the initial phoneme of each word in connected text.

Harry the happy hippo-hula-hoops with Henrietta. 

Discrimination of Oral Rhymes - a task that requires the identification of rhyming words presented in pairs.

Fun/ Run - Do these words rhyme?

Bat/ Ball - Do these words rhyme?

Production of Oral Rhymes - a task that requires a student to generate a word that rhymes with a given stimulus word.

Tell me a word that rhymes with bat.

Segmentation of Words in Sentences- the ability to divide sentences into their constituent parts.

Clap one time for each word in the sentence: "I like chocolate."

Identification & Manuplulation of Syllables in Spoken Words- these tasks involve the isolation, blending, segmentation, or deletion of syllables within words.

What is this word? "ta - ble"

Clap one time for each word part or syllable in "Saturday".

Say "snowman". Now say it again, but don't say "man".

Phonemic Awareness Activities

Identification & Manuplulation of Onsets and Rimes in Spoken Single-Syllable Words - words are composed of strings of phonemes. These tasks invove isolation, blending, segmention, or deletion of phonemes.  

The first part of "sip" is /s-/.

The last part of "win" is /-in/

What word is this? "sp - oon"

What would you get if you say "Sam" withouth the /s-/?

Phoneme Isolation- the ability to recognize initial, medial, and final sounds in a word.

Tell me the beginning or first sound in the word "cat". /k/

Tell me the ending or last sound in the word "cat". /t/

Tell me the middle sounds in the word "cat". /a/

Phoneme Identity- the ability to recognize the same sounds in different words.

What sound is the same in "fix", "fall", and "fun"?

Phoneme Categorization- the ability to recognize the word in a set of three or four words that has the "odd" sound.

Which word doesn't belong - "bus", "bug", or "rug"?

Phoneme Blending- the ability to listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes, and then combine the phonemes to form a word. This is the process used in decoding words.

What word if /b/ - /i/ - /g/?

Phoneme Segmentation- the ability to break a spoken word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as they tap or count it. This is the process used in spelling words phonetically: "invented spelling"

Tell me each sounds in the word "grab".

Phoneme Deletion- the ability to recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from the initial or final word position.

What is smile without the /s/?

Phoneme Addition- the ability to make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word.

What word do you have if you add /b/ to the beginning of "rake"?

Phoneme Substitution- the ability to substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.

The word is bug. Change the /g/ to /n/. What is the new word?

Phonological Awareness resources 

Phonemic Awareness resources