Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Concepts

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Phonological awareness covers all sound structures of language, from larger chunks (words, syllables) down to the smallest sounds (phonemes).

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TRUE

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Phonemic awareness is the basic understanding that speech is composed of a series of individual sounds and that we use sound-symbol correspondences to read and spell words.

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TRUE

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What is this an example of:
Teacher: “What sound do you hear at the beginning of the word dog?” Child: “/d/”

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Identifying Sounds

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What is this an example of: Teacher: “Listen to the following words: cat, hat, sun. Which two words end with the same sound? Child: “Cat and hat. They both end with /t/.”

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Categorizing Sounds

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What is this an example of:
Teacher: Separate the word hat into individual sounds. Child: /h/ /a/ /t/

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Segmenting Sounds

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What is this an example of:
Teacher: Put together the following sounds to form a word: /d/ o/ /g/. Child: dog

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Blending Sounds

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What is this an example of:
Teacher: Start with the word mat and change /m/ to /c/. What word do you have now? Child: cat

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Substituting Sounds

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What is this an example of:
Teacher: Say train without /t/
Child: rain?

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Phoneme Deletion (Deleting Sounds)

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The ability to hear and recognize words that end with the same sound.

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Rhyme Awareness

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The ability to hear and break words into their “beats”.

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Syllable Awareness