Phonological Awareness is the ability to recognize that spoken words are made up of individual sound parts.
Word Level Rhyming
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bat
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cat
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hat
Alliteration
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Bold big brown bear
Sentence Segmentation
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I / see / the / dog = 4 words
Syllable Level
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ba – by = 2 syllables
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ex-er-cise = 3 syllables
Phonological Awareness is like an umbrella. Phonemic Awareness and other skills exist under this umbrella.
Onset & Rime Level
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Onset = map
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Rime = map
Phonemic Awareness Level
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/m/ /oo/ /n/ moon = 3 phonemes
Phonemic awareness is the most advanced skill of phonological awareness.
