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Phonological Awareness: What It Is & Why It Matters
Phonological Awareness: What It Is & Why It Matters
Phonological Awareness is an umbrella term that includes the awareness of the larger parts of spoken language, such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes - as well as the smaller parts, phonemes or sounds.
Working on Phonological Awareness skills includes focusing on rhyme and syllable level tasks. For example you might say, "tell me something that rhymes with 'hat'", or "tell me how many syllables or beats are in the word 'caterpillar'". These skills are important to develop as they will help children identify where syllables are in written words as they develop their reading and writing skills. Rhyming skills may help students identify patterns in words, such as word families (e.g., hat-cat-bat-sat).
Supporting Phonological Awareness Skills at Home
Supporting Phonological Awareness Skills at Home
As you spend time with your child throughout the day, you can provide them with opportunities to build their phonological awareness during story reading and word play. Find the words that rhyme, count the words in the sentence, or clap up the syllables in a big word that you hear!
Click the skill to see a selection of activity ideas for each of the different skills. Remember, even if your child has mastered some of the earlier developing / easier skills, reviewing these together can still be lots of fun!
Practice While Reading!
Practice While Reading!
Use this bookmark while you are reading stories together to practice your phonological awareness skills!
Use this bookmark while you are reading stories together to practice your phonological awareness skills!
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Click on the image to get the PDF for you to print.
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Extra Ideas
Extra Ideas
Here are a few links to resources on the web related to building phonological awareness skills. Please note, these websites/apps have not been vetted by TVDSB, and as such, the use of these resources is ultimately the choice of the user and/or family.
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