M3: Phonological Awareness

What is phonological awareness?

 

• Phonological awareness is a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language – parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes. It is the knowledge that language is made up of individual sounds.
• Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear sounds, identify sounds, and manipulate sounds in spoken words.
• Phonemic awareness can be done on the phone (you don’t need to see the letters).

 

• Phonics involves the relationship between sounds and written symbols, whereas phonemic awareness involves sounds in spoken words. Therefore, phonics instruction focuses on teaching sound-spelling relationships and is associated with print.