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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Activities for Your Kindergartener

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Activities for Your Kindergartener

Phonological and phonemic awareness are important pre-reading skills, related to the ability to hear, identify, and play with the sounds in spoken language — including rhymes, syllables, and the smallest units of sound (phonemes). Children with strong phonological awareness skills are ready to become readers.

First grade girl reading book in class

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Activities for Your First Grader

Phonological and phonemic awareness are important pre-reading skills, related to the ability to hear, identify, and play with the sounds in spoken language — including rhymes, syllables, and the smallest units of sound (phonemes). Children with strong phonological awareness skills are ready to become readers.

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Activities for Your Second Grader

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Activities for Your Second Grader

Phonological and phonemic awareness are important pre-reading skills, related to the ability to hear, identify, and play with the sounds in spoken language — including rhymes, syllables, and the smallest units of sound (phonemes). Strong phonological awareness skills continue to support reading development in second grade and beyond.

Four elementary aged kids sitting in a row and reading

Portraits of Struggling Readers

You may have children in your life who aren’t as successful with reading as they could be. The challenge is that not all reading difficulties look the same, and not all reading difficulties should be addressed in the same way.

Group of English learner children in preschool

Preschool for ELLs

Early education expert Rebecca Palacios and offers information on the following components of a pre-K ELL program: language instruction, curriculum, professional development, and family outreach.

Toddler looking at colorful board book

Print Awareness

Print awareness is basic knowledge about print and how it is typically organized on a page. A young child with print awareness knows that print conveys meaning, print is read left to right, and words are separated by spaces. 

Print Awareness Activities for Your Pre-K Child

Print Awareness Activities for Your Pre-K Child

Print awareness is understanding that print carries meaning, that books contain letters and words, and how a book “works” — such as identifying the front and back covers, knowing that pages are turned, and that print in English reads from left to right.

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