What is phonological awareness?
- Phonological awareness: Noticing and playing with the words, rhymes, and syllables involved in everyday speech
- Phonological awareness is an essential pre-reading skill.
Strategy #1: Encourage your child to pick up on sounds, syllables, and rhymes.
- Read aloud to your child and choose books that have rhymes or repeated sounds.
Strategy #2: Focus on rhyming.
Strategy #3: Clap your hands to the “beat” to make syllables easier to understand.
Strategy #4: Get into guesswork.
- Games like “I Spy” with sounds is one way to help your child practice phonological awareness.
Strategy #5: Singing is a great way to get your child rhyming.
- You can find songs specifically made to develop phonological and phonemic awareness skills.
Strategy #6: Practice connecting sounds.
Strategy #7: Break apart words.
- Start with breaking apart compound words.
- Use legos to help make this point, breaking them apart to represent removing a part of the word.
Strategy #8: Use crafts as a method of hands-on learning.
- Visit the original source listed below for examples of phonological awareness-developing craft projects.
Strategy #9: Do research online for more resources and ideas
