This document discusses phonological awareness and phonics. It defines phonological awareness as the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in spoken language, which includes skills like rhyming, syllable counting, and phoneme manipulation. Phonics is defined as knowing the relationship between letters and sounds. The document outlines a sequence of phonological awareness skills to be taught, from larger units of sound like words and syllables to smaller units like phonemes. It also provides examples of instructional activities for teaching letter-sound correspondence, with a recommended sequence of letters to introduce based on frequency and similarity of sounds. The purpose of teaching these foundational literacy skills is explained as building the basic abilities needed for reading and spelling.