Language, Talk and Literacy Development & Early Literacy

Phonological Awareness and Phonics are NOT the same!

Phonological Awareness
Is an auditory skill that doesnt have to involve print
Activities are auditory

Phonics
Involves print
Requires actually looking at print Focuses on graphic representation of spoken language Assists children in being able to sound out words, blend them together, and finally say the word

Focuses on how sounds can be segmented, combined, and manipulated in spoken language Begins before children sound-letter correspondences by manipulating them

Modified from Texas Center for Reading and Language Art: Master Reading Teacher Materials

Phonological Awareness in PreKindergarten

Preschool children begin to develop phonological awareness through language play and exposure to: Poems, songs, and nursery rhymes Language Awareness Games Rhythmic Activities Phonological games and activities structured by the teacher Patterned and other predictable texts

Phonological Awareness Continuum

Phoneme Blending, Segmenting, and Manipulation Onset-Rime Blending and Segmenting

Syllable Blending & Segmenting

4 4 3

Sentence Segmenting

Alliteration

Rhyming
3 Listening

Modified from Texas Center for Reading and Language Art: Master Reading Teacher Materials

Phonological Awareness Continuum: Listening

Environmental sounds Sequencing Sounds Reverse or substitute words in nursery rhymes or familiar phrases Following a series of verbal directions Specific sounds in a story

Phonological Awareness Continuum: Rhyming

Rhyming chants, songs, and fingerplays Nursery rhymes and other poems Stories with rhyming text Use of word deletions during repeated readings

Phonological Awareness Continuum: Alliteration

Recite poems, chants, nursery rhymes, and songs with repeating initial sounds Read alliterative texts Group objects by beginning sounds Play beginning sound name games Call attention to words with similar beginning sounds

AaMy name is Alice and I come from Alabama JjMy name is Jennifer and I jump for Joy in Jamaica.

Phonological Awareness Continuum: Sentence Segmenting

Selecting meaningful sentences from childrens speech or favorite books Have children clap/count each word in a sentence (see example at the bottom of the slide) Shuffle and reorder words in familiar sentences Make silly phrases by deleting words from sentences
5. . . .little. . . monkeys. . . .jumping.. . .the . . . . bed

Phonological Awareness Continuum: Syllable Segmenting

Have children clap or tap out the syllables of their names and other familiar words

Jen-ni-fer

David

Wil-lie

Phonological Awareness Continuum: Onset and Rimes

Build childrens repertoire of nursery rhymes Sort words into families by rimes (C.at, h.at, b.at)

Phonological Awareness Continuum: Phoneme Segmenting, Blending, and Manipulation

Sing songs that involve phoneme replacement e.g. Apples and Bananas, The name game Mappy Mirthday Moo Moo!

Willoughby Wallaby wee, An elephant sat on me! Willoughby wallaby woo, An elephant sat on you! Change to Willoughby Wallaby wustin, An elephant sat on Justin! (note: child passes to next child while sitting in a small circle) Willoughby wallaby wody, An elephant sat on Cody!

Texas Center for Reading and Language Art: Master Reading Teacher Materials