Phonological Awareness includes hearing and playing with the smaller sounds of words and recognizing that words are made up of a number of different sounds.
What Can You Do?
- Sing songs; most break words up into one syllable per note. Reading works with syllables also.
- Recite rhymes; rhymes depend upon ending sounds.
- Play with tongue twisters.
- Pick a sound for the day. Notice it at the beginning of words and at the end of words.
- Play games from Peggy Kaye’s book Games for Reading.
Suggested books include:
Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens
Choo, Choo, Clickety-Clack by Margaret Mayo
King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
Sheep in a Shop by Nancy Shaw
No Jumping on the Bed by Tedd Arnold
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
Read about the Print Motivation skill or return to 6 Early Literacy Skills overview.