Fun with Phonological Awareness

How:

Phonological awareness skills are acquired and learned by listening to sounds/words/sentences and do not involve written words. Phonological awareness skills are important in order to develop good reading and spelling skills.

Phonological awareness includes the following skills:

• Recognizing when words rhymes (“Do ‘dog’ and ‘frog’ rhyme?”)

  • Do they rhyme? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHroOYO1iOo&t=44s

• Rhyming production (“Tell me a word that rhymes with ‘shoe’”)

  • I Love to Rhyme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVophT8naUM

• Segmenting words in sentences (“Clap out the words in this sentence….”)

  • Sentence segmentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc6qMzRL4Fg

• Blending syllables (“What word is this: ‘tur-tle’”?)

  • Story: Nice Try Tooth Fairy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp8FXY8_6ek

• Segmenting syllables (“Clap out the words in this sentence….”)

  • Syllables Scratch Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7DY2lgJlU

• Identifying sounds in words (“What is the first/middle/last sound in “cat”?)

  • Beginning Middle and Ending Sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYiZF9216E

• Blending sounds (Put these sounds together – ‘t-o-p’”)

  • Stretchy the Word Snake: https://youtu.be/xIBjAWkPzNA