Phonological Awareness

Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Awareness are interchangeable terms.

Phonological Awareness is an awareness of various speech sounds such as syllables, rhyme, and individual phonemes.

Phonemic Awareness refers to the ability to consciously manipulate individual phonemes in a spoken language.

Phonological Awareness is usually an auditory task.

Phonological Awareness incorporates studying beginning letter sounds and rhyming words.

Phonological Awareness incorporates phonics instruction.

Students with concept of word represent word boundaries in their writing.

A student that has learned the alphabetic principle is in the emergent stage of development.

Student who can match speech to print possess concept of word.

The word glad has four phonemes.

A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one word from another.

In the word stamp the s is the onset and the amp is the rime.

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f

fl

ag

flag

phonics

phoneme

morpheme

letters

Emergent

Beginner

Advanced

Dyslexic