Phonological awareness

Progression
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Awareness Skill
Phonological awareness
Progression
This guide will show you
the best age to introduce
each Phonological
Awareness Skill and
Ideas to practice
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each skill
in your
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Phonological
Awareness

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Rhyming Syllables
Alliteration Word Concept

Phonemic Awareness
Phonological
Awareness
Phonological Awareness is an awareness that
the words that we speak can be taken apart.

Sentences can be taken apart into words.

Words into syllables, and syllables into smaller
units of sound called phoneme.

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grab the Phonol
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Skill
concept before moving into the phonemes.

Therefore, this guide is just a suggestion to

where your students should be at each age.
You should start from the skill that your students
haven’t mastered yet and move on from there.
Ages 3 to 4
• Rhyming
• Alliteration
• Word concept
Ages 3 to 4
Rhyming
• Listen to rhyming words.
• Read rhyming books.
• Sing rhyming songs
• Memorize Parts of Nursery
Rhymes.
Ages 3 to 4
Alliteration
• Say words that start with
the same sound and have
children repeat them.
• Stress the beginning target
sound – ssslithery, sssneaky.
Ages 3 to 4
Word Concept
• Jump or clap for each word
in a phrase.
• As you say the sentence,
ask your child to repeat
each word after you.
Ages 4 to 5
• Syllables
• Rhyming
• Alliteration
• Word concept
Ages 4 to 5
Syllables
• Clapping out the word and
counting how many syllables.
• I spy words with 1, 2 or 3
syllable.
Ages 4 to 5
Rhyming
• Identify/Produce words that
rhyme. “Does cat rhyme with
hat?” or “Name a word that
rhymes with ‘pan’”.
• “I spy” rhyming game
• “I say you say” rhyming
words.
Ages 4 to 5
Alliteration
• Make up allitarative silly
phrases; map, mip, mop,
mup.
• Allitarative names – Big Bob.
• I Spy...
• Tongue Twister.
Ages 4 to 5
Word Concept
• Count words in a sentence.
• For each word you say in a
sentence, lay a bean on the
table.
Ages 5 to 6

Phonemic Awareness
Ages 5 to 6
Phonemic Awareness
• Blending Onset and Rime:
say ‘m’ then ‘at’, the student
blend together to sat ‘mat’.

• Sound isolation: Identify the

beginning, middle or ending sound.
Ages 5 to 6
Phonemic Awareness
• Phoneme Blending: Say the sounds
and let the student blend together
to say the whole word.

• Phoneme Segmentation: say a

word, the students break it up
into each single sound.
Ages 6 to 7

Phonemic Awareness
Ages 6 to 7
Phonemic Awareness
• Phoneme Manipulation: Change one
sound in a word by substitution,
addition or deletion
• Phoneme substitution: say a word,
have students change one sound to
another to create another word.
• Phoneme addition: adding a sound to a
word to say a new word.
• Phoneme deletion: taking away a sound
from a word and saying what's left.
Phonological Awareness
The majority of Phonological Skills
should be learned from age 6 to
7. It is extremely important that
these skills are practiced every
day, to lay a solid foundation for
Phonics.

Teacher and parents should

take in consideration the level of
knowledge of each individual child
before introducing a more
complex skill.
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