What is phonemic awareness?
It is defined in two ways: Conceptually - understanding that spoken language and words are made up of individual sounds. Performance - the ability to pick out and manipulate sounds in spoken words and language. |
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Research recommends that phonological awareness skills be taught in a sequential matter beginning with focus on rhyming words and word-level skills, to determining syllables in a word, then to segmenting and blending phonemes
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Distinguishing rhymes and rhyming songs together with an understanding that sentences are made up of individual words are at the beginning or less complex part of the continuum. In the middle, is the ability to segment and blend syllables into a word. The most complex level is the ability to understand that words are made from individual phonemes or sounds that can be manipulated to make new words (Chard & Dickson, 1999).
What is The Alphabetic Principle?
The idea that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language. Texas Education Agency (2002) |
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This file provides beneficial information and activities to support the development of phonological awareness in young children.
CTL Reading Clinic
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This Reading Skills Pyramid illustrates the analysis of skills and grade level targets determined by the U.S. Department of Education. Curriculum differs from state to state and many children will develop faster than these targets These norms represent average levels of reading achievement.
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