Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness is the awareness of all the sounds of language. It is the ability to hear and distinguish sounds. Such as recognizing sounds, adding sounds, taking apart sounds, and moving sounds around as well as using sentences, words, rhymes, syllables, onsets and rimes, and individual sounds or phonemes.: D
Phonological Awareness Continuum
This is the Phonological Awareness Continuum to help better understand what we need to do to get your child to be a better reader : D
Listening- The child needs to be able to listen to know how to comprehend something that is being said to them.
Rhyme/Alitteration- This is another basic skill that a child needs to know for phoneme sequencing. If parents do want to help out a good activity to do with them is to do read alouds with your child because they have alot of rhyming in a book as well as singing with your child, for example, Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see a red bird looking at me. :D great sound for rhyming/alitteration.
Sentence Segmentation-This sounds like something complicated but really and truly it is just breaking up sentences into slices and make the words. An activity that you could use would be counting words Tell the children, “We are going to count words.” Using blocks or other objects
with many pieces, have the children build a tower according to how many words
are in the phrase. :D
Syllable Blending/ Segmenting-This will help the students break up syllables in a word or put them together. Such as popcorn, you tell them what is popcorn without the pop? They will say corn. :D
Onset-Rime blending/ Segmenting-As we keep going down these skills they may get harder but this your child will get the hang of it once you keep practicing. :) As for this one, we can do word families such as the -at family and say, What does /c/ /at/ spell? Then the child should respond cat! this helps them establish new words as we keep mixing all the letters together.
Last but not least is...
Phoneme Blending/ Segmenting & Manipulation- This is probably the most difficult skill but i know that we can do it together:) Segmenting is breaking a word into its individual phonemes, An example for phoneme segmentation is by saying a word such as pen and have the child segment the sounds /p/ /e/ and /n/. I like to have the child use their hands like a rubberband and stretch the word out as they segment the sounds so they have something tactile to have with them. An example for phoneme blending is to say the individual phonemes and have the child blend them together to form the word. For example, the adult would say /b/ /i/ and /g/ and the child would say big. This is another fun thing to do while riding in the car.:) Manipulation is the most trickiest one a great activity for this is do a picture hunt and use a picture book such as " I spy" and tell the child okay im going to say the picture i am seeing but not say the beginning of the word and you tell me what it is...such as i see an animal with the ending sound "og" can you tell me what i see? Then the student can point at the correct picture and say "dog". :)
Listening- The child needs to be able to listen to know how to comprehend something that is being said to them.
Rhyme/Alitteration- This is another basic skill that a child needs to know for phoneme sequencing. If parents do want to help out a good activity to do with them is to do read alouds with your child because they have alot of rhyming in a book as well as singing with your child, for example, Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see a red bird looking at me. :D great sound for rhyming/alitteration.
Sentence Segmentation-This sounds like something complicated but really and truly it is just breaking up sentences into slices and make the words. An activity that you could use would be counting words Tell the children, “We are going to count words.” Using blocks or other objects
with many pieces, have the children build a tower according to how many words
are in the phrase. :D
Syllable Blending/ Segmenting-This will help the students break up syllables in a word or put them together. Such as popcorn, you tell them what is popcorn without the pop? They will say corn. :D
Onset-Rime blending/ Segmenting-As we keep going down these skills they may get harder but this your child will get the hang of it once you keep practicing. :) As for this one, we can do word families such as the -at family and say, What does /c/ /at/ spell? Then the child should respond cat! this helps them establish new words as we keep mixing all the letters together.
Last but not least is...
Phoneme Blending/ Segmenting & Manipulation- This is probably the most difficult skill but i know that we can do it together:) Segmenting is breaking a word into its individual phonemes, An example for phoneme segmentation is by saying a word such as pen and have the child segment the sounds /p/ /e/ and /n/. I like to have the child use their hands like a rubberband and stretch the word out as they segment the sounds so they have something tactile to have with them. An example for phoneme blending is to say the individual phonemes and have the child blend them together to form the word. For example, the adult would say /b/ /i/ and /g/ and the child would say big. This is another fun thing to do while riding in the car.:) Manipulation is the most trickiest one a great activity for this is do a picture hunt and use a picture book such as " I spy" and tell the child okay im going to say the picture i am seeing but not say the beginning of the word and you tell me what it is...such as i see an animal with the ending sound "og" can you tell me what i see? Then the student can point at the correct picture and say "dog". :)
Here is a video that will be useful to use for parents and even teachers for phonological awareness as well as using the phonological awareness continuum: D I hope you enjoy it.
Some Activites that may be useful to use to help your child learn phonological awareness:D
you can use pebbles to help them make words :) such as cat, hat, phone, cone, etc.
Beach Ball Game:)
For this activity, students can throw a the ball to each other and each color on the ball has a different phonological continuum so whatever their left thumb or whatever you may choose you will give them something to do, for example, if someone picks rhyme i will say what rhymes with hat? they will tell me cat. :)