Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness, or the awareness of and ability to work with sounds in spoken language, sets the stage for decoding, blending, and, ultimately, word reading. Phonological awareness begins developing before the beginning of formal schooling and continues through third grade and beyond. 

We LOVE and use Heggerty in our classroom.  We call them word games.  These pages give some great ideas of things to practice at home, and great books to read with your child to help with things like rhyming, etc.  Click the arrow in the top right corner to open this PDF so you can see the whole document.

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Click the image above to be taken to the phonological awareness section of their website that is full of free activities to do at home to help your child develop their sense of phonological awareness.  



The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) (http://www.fcrr.org/) has a reasonably complete phonological awareness program available for free download. The various faculty and researchers behind the FCRR have made extensive contributions to the understanding of phonological awareness and reading development for more than 20 years.


Click on the image below to go the mCLASS Home Connect Website.  This website has some great ideas of easy games to play at home to increase your child's phonological awareness, and other aspects of reading.