PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

What is it and how does it relate to

phonemic awareness?
Phonological Awareness is Phonological Awareness is like
the ability to recognize that an umbrella. Phonemic
spoken words are made up Awareness and other skills exist
of individual sound parts. under this umbrella.
sound parts

Word Syllable Onset & Rime Phonemic

Level Level Level Awareness
Rhyming
Level
cat
bat

hat
ba-by = 2 syllables map
Alliteration
/m/ /oo/ /n/
Bold big ex-er-cise = 3 syllables Onset = map moon = 3 phonemes
brown bear

Phonemic
Rime = map awareness is the
Sentence most advanced skill
Segmentation of phonological
I / see / the / dog awareness.
= 4 words

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