Phonological Awareness Getting Ready to Read Play With the Sounds in Words

4 Concepts Phoneme. Smallest part of word sound Grapheme. Represents phonemes with letter or two Phonemic Awareness. Learn & manipulate sounds Phonics. Relationship between phonemes & graphemes

Phoneme. Smallest part of word sound

Grapheme. Represents phonemes with letter or two

Phonemic Awareness. Learn & manipulate sounds

Phonics. Relationship between phonemes & graphemes

Develop Awareness Children must hear and distinguish sounds of language Rhymes, syllables, and phonemes important Key “ready to read” skills Word games help

Children must hear and distinguish sounds of language

Rhymes, syllables, and phonemes important

Key “ready to read” skills

Word games help

Help Develop Skills Learn nursery rhymes Make up silly, nonsense rhymes Ask if two words rhyme: “ Do ‘cat’ and ‘dog’ rhyme?” “ Do ‘cat’ and ‘hat’ rhyme?”

Learn nursery rhymes

Make up silly, nonsense rhymes

Ask if two words rhyme:

“ Do ‘cat’ and ‘dog’ rhyme?”

“ Do ‘cat’ and ‘hat’ rhyme?”

Have Fun With Sounds Sing songs together daily Songs break words into syllables Play I Spy , “I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with far (car).”

Sing songs together daily

Songs break words into syllables

Play I Spy , “I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with far (car).”

Play With Words Let child make up rhymes You guess too Put two words together, make new word “ What word would we have if we put ‘cow’ and ‘boy’ together?”

Let child make up rhymes

You guess too

Put two words together, make new word

“ What word would we have if we put ‘cow’ and ‘boy’ together?”

Play With Letter Sounds Ask child to change beginning sounds of name “ Jimmy, can you change the /j/ in Jimmy to the /t/ sound?” Don’t say letter name, just sound Say rhymes and sing songs in the language most comfortable for you.

Ask child to change beginning sounds of name

“ Jimmy, can you change the /j/ in Jimmy to the /t/ sound?”

Don’t say letter name, just sound

Say rhymes and sing songs in the language most comfortable for you.

Early Literacy Skills Learning sounds in words is key Reading is recognizing those sounds in print Help child get ready to read

Learning sounds in words is key

Reading is recognizing those sounds in print

Help child get ready to read