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KNOWING SOUNDS IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE

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Teachers Call This Skill:

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Try not to get confused by the fancy name “Phonological Awareness.” It just means the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in spoken language. Children who have phonological awareness can tell you the sounds they hear in words, separate the sounds and change out sounds to make new words.

This is important for reading because children must first be able to hear the sounds and patterns in words before they can identify what letters represent those sounds.

Phonological awareness can and should be directly taught to children. Parents can be the best teachers by singing with their kids, rhyming words and asking them the sounds they hear in different words.

If you can sing a song or rhyme a word, you can build your child’s phonological awareness.

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What is Phonological Awareness?

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