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What is Phonological Awareness?
Phonological awareness is a skill that allows individuals to recognize and work with the sounds of spoken language. It's key to learning to read. (understood.org)
Phonological awareness is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language – parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes. http://www.readingrockets.org
A student’s level of phonological awareness at the end of Kindergarten is one of the strongest predictors of future reading success, in Grade 1 and beyond (Adams et. al. 2008).
Phonological Awareness Assessments
Phonological Awareness Assessments
Quick Phonological Awareness Screening (QPAS) https://www.uen.org/syc/downloads/Handout6_QPAS.pdf
Phonological Awareness Skills Tests (PAST)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pYszgsOTKmS2Bzd4BjpGFVs9TqdKlWZ2
More about phonological assessments:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/phonological-awareness-instructional-and-assessment-guidelines
Phonological Awareness- Common Core State Standards by Grade
Phonological Awareness- Common Core State Standards by Grade
Teaching & Learning Phonological Awareness
Teaching & Learning Phonological Awareness
Blending and Segmenting
Blending and Segmenting
Blending involves pulling together individual sounds or syllables within words; segmenting involves breaking words down into individual sounds or syllables. Both processes require a student to hold the individual elements in mind as the word is created or taken apart.
- Segmentation - breaking spoken words into parts
- Blending - putting sounds together into a whole unit
- Manipulation - adding, deleting, and/or substituting sound units
Teaching Phonological Awareness
Teaching Phonological Awareness
CVC Words
CVC Words
As a first step children focus on decoding (reading) three-letter words arranged consonant, vowel, consonant (CVC words). They will learn other letter sounds, such as the consonants g, b, d, h and the remaining vowels e, o, u. A child who already knows all their letter sounds might be shown the CVC word 'pit' and asked to read it out loud. This is the point where they are required to use their knowledge of the individual sounds of each letter and 'blend' these letter sounds together, so they are saying the whole word and not three individual sounds.
Children start to learn their letter sounds in Reception, then start to 'blend' sounds to read words.
Source and More on CVC words: https://www.theschoolrun.com/cvc-words
Differentiation
Differentiation
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