WHAT IS PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS?

ability to ANALYZE sounds of language

*can be at the WORD, SYLLABLE, or PHONEME level

(Wagner & Torgesen, 1987)

Phonological awareness

Phonemic Awareness

Listening

Rhyme and alliteration

Sentence Segmentation

Onset and Rimes

Phonemes

WHAT IS PHONEMIC AWARENESS?

Ability to think about and manipulate individual phonemes

o Phonemes are not letters they are individual speech sounds

o Some individual speech sounds are represented by letters and others are not

EXAMPLEST R A N S P A R E N T

• Bat • \b\ a\t\

T R A N S P A R E N T

• Slip• \s\ l\i\p\

B A TS L I P

T R A N S P A R E N T

• Fox• \f\o\k\s\

O P A Q U E

F O K S

• Rocks• \r\o\k\s\

R O K S

O P A Q U ET R A N S P A R E N T

• Hawk• \h\a\w\k\

• Chalk• \ch\a\k\

CH A K

H A W K

O P A Q U E

• Dodge• \D\o\j\

T R A N S P A R E N T

• Genie• \j\e\n\e\

D O J

J E N E

T R A N S P A R E N T

• We• \w\e\

O P A Q U E

• Tree• \t\r\e\

W E T R E

T R A N S P A R E N T

• Kwik• \k\w\i\k\

O P A Q U E

• Squid• \s\k\w\i\d\

K W I K S K W I D

T R A N S P A R E N T O P A Q U E

• Stink• \s\t\i\ng\k\

• Ring• \r\i\ng\

R I NG

S T I NG K

BARRIERS TO EXPLICIT PHONEMICAWARENESS ONCE LITERATE

Orthography or written language makes it difficult to think beyond print in order to analyze speech sounds. In English there is not a one to one correspondence for letters to sounds. • School

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