Phonological Awareness

• "Phonological awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in spoken language. It’s a broad category that includes phonemic awareness"

• It focuses on sounds and not written letters.

  Phonological awareness skills might include:

  • identifying words in a sentence

  • identifying and generating rhymes

  • Splitting and combing the onset and rime

  • Splitting and blending syllables

What is Phonological awareness?

Fun Fact!

• Counting words in a sentence: How many words do you hear in “The cat is sleeping?” – 4 words

• Rhyming: Find a word that rhymes with tab – cab, lab, gab

These are all examples of phonological awarness!!