PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
What is it and how does it relate to
phonemic awareness?
Phonological Awareness is
the ability to recognize that
spoken words are made up
of individual sound parts.
sound parts
Word
Level
Phonological Awareness is like
an umbrella. Phonemic
Awareness and other skills exist
under this umbrella.
Syllable
Level
Onset & Rime
Level
ba-by = 2 syllables
map
ex-er-cise = 3 syllables
Onset = map
Rhyming
Phonemic
Awareness
Level
cat
bat
hat
Alliteration
Bold big
brown bear
Rime = map
Sentence
Segmentation
I / see / the / dog
= 4 words
/m/ /oo/ /n/
moon = 3 phonemes
Phonemic
awareness is the
most advanced skill
of phonological
awareness.
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