Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

There are 5 Levels of Phonological Awareness:

1. Rhyming & Alliteration

2. Sentence Segmentation

3. Syllable 

4. Onsets & Rimes

5. Phonemic Awareness 

Becomes more complex is you approach each level.

Phonological Awareness is the ability to manipulate a group of skills by:

• Identifying rhyming words

• Counting Syllables

• Alliteration

• Segmenting a sentence into words

• THE GREATEST OF THESE (MY OPINION 👩🏾‍🏫): PHONEMIC AWARENESS and this is also the last skill to develop.

Phonemic Awareness is the ability manipulate each sound (phonemes) in a spoken word by:

• Blending

• Stretching

• Alliteration

• Substitution

Phonological & Phonemic Awareness gets confused with Phonics; They are different, but the skills are related.

Phonological & Phonemic Awareness refers to spoken language. It’s understanding that sounds of spoken language work together to make words.

Phonics

The connection between sounds and print.

It’s the direct-instruction that teaches that letters represent the sounds of spoken language.

Phonics is the tool used to advance print-sound association.

Children who have difficulty hearing and working with sounds (phonemes), will have a difficult time learning how to connect these sounds to letters, when they see them in written words.