Phonological Awareness -
Hearing the Sounds

Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and play with the sounds that make up our language.  The ability to play with sounds, phonological awareness, includes rhyming, alliteration, and segmenting words into syllables.  Poetry, nursery rhymes, Rhythmic activities and tongue twisters help preschool children play with sound.

Phonics involves connecting print (letters) with sounds.   Phonemic Awareness is more highly related to reading than are tests of general intelligence. (Stanovich, 1996)
View PowerPoint to learn about Phonological Awareness.

Phonological Awareness

Alphabetic Principle - short videos:
http://216.250.230.92:8080/ramgen/clips/rr/dvd/2_7.rm
http://216.250.230.92:8080/ramgen/clips/rr/fyt/sounds.rm
Assessment for phonological awareness kindergarteners http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Kg-PrimaryTools/phonemic_aware.pdf
Beginning Reading http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/ericE565.html
Beginning Reading And Phonological Awareness For Students With Learning Disabilities.  http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/disability.phonological.html  theory
Beginning Reading http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/ericE565.html
Internation Reading Association Position Statement http://www.reading.org/pdf/phonemic_aware.pdf
Link for children's activities: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/webwatch/phonics/
Nursery rhymes and phonological awareness http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/read/papers/9597-0_MotherGoose%20WP.pdf
Phonemic Awareness http://ucfed.ucf.edu/flare/Phonemic%20Awareness.pdf
Phonological awareness activities http://www.pen.k12. va.us/go/VDOE/Instruction/Reading/findings.pdf
Phonemic Awareness and alphabet knoweledge http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/info/pubs/katzsym/steinhaus.pdf
Phonemic Awareness: An Important Early Step in Learning To Read. http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d119.html
Phonemic awareness activities http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=416
Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/chard_phono_awareness.html
Phonological awareness sequence and activities – not prinable http://www.etacuisenaire.com/pdf/kindergarten/chapter_2.pdf
Phonological Awareness test for adults: http://ca.geocities.com/phonological/test.htm
Power-point presentation Pop quiz for adults: http://www.ectc.pdx.edu/pdfs/popquizearlyliteracy.ppt
Role of Phonological Awareness in Learning to Read http://www.literacyvolunteers.org/about/ld/awareness.html
Spectrogram Reading: What are phonemes? Understanding sounds from the speech theorist's perspective http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tutordemos/SpectrogramReading/phoneme.html
Sounds of animals in various languages http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html

Supporting Phonological Awareness Development in the classroom http://www.reading.org/pdf/RT_yopp.pdf
What is Phonological Awareness and why is it important? http://www.factsinaction.org/classroom/clnov03.htm
Yopp test of phonemes:

http://teams.lacoe.edu/reading/assessments/yopp.html
http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Education/TEC/yopp.htm

Phonemes in English

Frequency of Spellings http://www.unifon.org/dewey.html
Phoneme Chart Vowels and Consonants http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/folkchart.htm
Sounds to letters http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/pdfs/9phonemes.pdf
Progress of phonological awareness http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/tempo/ERWeb/ERClass3/PAProgression.jpg
Simulatation how various phonemes are articulated http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html
Video of Phoenic segementation http://216.250.230.92:8080/ramgen/clips/rr/dvd/2_7.rm

Development of Speech Sounds

Development of Speech Sounds in Children

http://www.msha.ca/pdf/devl%20speech%20milestones%20April%2013%202003.pdf
http://www.arnoldpalmerhospital.org/parents/child_health/phillips/development.cfm?desc=speech

How to know if a child is reaching speech milestones: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tools/printer.asp?ref=http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/speechandlanguage.asp
Video of English sounds http://216.250.230.92:8080/ramgen/clips/rr/fyt/sounds.rm
Speech Sound Development  http://www.tyquin.com.au/Articles/speechsounddevel.html

Progressing through "Early Literacy Links"
Developmental Appropriate and Best Practice, Planting the Seeds, Language Development, Story time
Phonological Awareness, Rhyming, Alliteration, Breaking words in syllables
Written Expression, Print and Book Awareness, Letter Knowledge
Curriculum, Planning, Authors, Assessment
Working with Parents, Mentoring and Guiding Principles

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Home Page , Site Map , Additional Links,
What you say, is what you get!
When the Best Response Is a Question ,
Respecting the Feelings, Guiding the Behavior,
Developmental Supervision: Strengthening Practice by Engaging in Joint Inquiry,
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Last updated June 13, 2006