Fun With Early Reading

How:

Phonological awareness skills are acquired and learned by listening to sounds/words/sentences and do not involve written words.

Phonological Awareness includes the following skills: (Listen and play along with each song/game)

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

  • Do they rhyme? Rhyming Words

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

  • I Love to Rhyme Love to Rhyme

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

  • Sentence segmentation Sentence Segmentation

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

  • Story: Nice Try Tooth Fairy Tooth Fairy

• 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 Sounds

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

  • Stretchy the Word Snake: Word Snake

Phonological Awareness Calendar - Articulation and Phonological Awareness Calendars help practice correct spoken sounds, rhyming, beginning sounds and syllables! Practice 3 to 4 times a week to help build your language.