What Is Phonological Awareness?

Phonological awareness is a strong predictor for a child’ s reading success. Phonological awareness is an umbrella term which covers basic awareness of sounds, more importantly speech sounds. This awareness of speech sounds will help the child to become aware to sounds in words and realize that words can have onset-rimes, onset-rimes make up syllables and syllables make up words. It lays the foundation of  advanced skills such as manipulation (substituting, deleting, reversing) of words.

The awareness of sounds helps us segment and blend words together which helps in reading and spelling words. The awareness of and knowledge of sounds will help children learn how to decode words (sounding them out, pairing sounds to segment), and this will help them to read unfamiliar words. A child with weak phonological awareness will struggle with reading. When we read, we ’re focused on identifying the words in front of us, but we also need to keep track of the words we just read, and grab the meaning of the previous and future words we encountered. This is a lot to stay on top of, so by having good phonological awareness skills, we can focus more on the comprehension of the text we read and less on struggling to decode what a word says.

The activities in this resource are targeted at building a child’s awareness for sound. access and download the sounds for this activity from the drive link here : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V6O-Il1u3J6F19wmnlyl60eKIQRCo2az?usp=sharing

Skills You Gain From Phonological Awareness Activities

Skill 1 : exploring phonological awareness in the early years in the early years