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The
understanding that words are made up of sounds |
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The ability to pick out and
manipulate sounds in spoken words |
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Together with alphabet
recognition, a key to early reading success |
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Developed in part by listening to
rhymes, poetry, songs and wordplay |
Phonemic Awareness
Tasks are Mainly Oral
Is your child
able to hear rhymes and/or alliteration?
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in poetry |
Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock
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in songs |
Rain, rain go away
Come again on another day
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in nonsense |
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.
Could your child
tell you whether king and ring are rhyming words? Can your child
hear that the words in ‘blue balls bounce’ all begin with the same sound?
Could your
child...
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Listen to three words, and
hear the one that does not rhyme? |
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Look at items on a tray and identify the item that begins
with a different sound? |
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Listen to a story about Cathy. ‘Cathy likes cookies,
candy and cake.’ Could your child say whether Cathy would she prefer crayons
or pencils? Camping or hiking? |
And, could he or
she blend sounds together and create words?
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Listen
to the word parts (syllables), say the word. The first part is air...
the second part is port. What is the whole word?
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The first part
of the word is /r/. The second part of the word is ug. What is the whole
word?
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Listen to the word parts, /h/ /u/
/g/. What is the word?
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Conversely, could
he or she orally segment words?
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What sounds do
you here in cat? /c/ /a/ /t/ |
Activities You Can
Use to Promote Phonemic Awareness
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Read poetry! |
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Read and enjoy lots of rhyming stories with your
child. Another time, when you reread
the stories, pause when you come to the matching rhymes, see if your child can
‘fill in the blanks.’ |
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Play with Hink Pinks. A Hink Pink is a pair of
rhyming words that answer a riddle. For example, a large hog is a Big Pig, a
fight over a baby’s toy is a Rattle Battle. |
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Twist Your Tongue -
Have fun with tongue twisters like Rubber baby buggy
bumpers and Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers! Help your child to make up silly alliterative
sentences. |
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Make up an unusual list – ‘I’m
going camping and I’m going to pack a bat, a cat, a rat.’ OR
‘I’m going camping and I’m going to pack a sock, a sleeping
bag, a soccer ball, and a sandwich. Do you think I will
want a sweater or a jacket?’ Ask your child to suggest some
more things for your list. Can your child hear how your words work together? |
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Make a poster or a book -
create a book of words that begin with a particular sound or create a book of
rhyming words |
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Play I spy with my little eye, something that begins
with /s/ (use the letter sound rather
than the letter name) |
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Clap to the beat
of songs and poems |
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How many rhyming words
can you make up? (nonsense is okay) |
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Ban, can ,dan, fan, gan, han, jan, lan, man... |
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Sort picture cards
into rhyming families |
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Make up word riddles
– what starts with /b/ and rhymes with red? |
Match the Ending Consonant Sound
Match
the Rhyming Words
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Phonemic Awareness
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