17 Facts About Phonological awareness

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Phonological awareness is an individual's awareness of the phonological structure, or sound structure, of words.

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Phonological awareness is an important and reliable predictor of later reading ability and has, therefore, been the focus of much research.

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Phonological awareness involves the detection and manipulation of sounds at three levels of sound structure: syllables, onsets and rimes, and phonemes.

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Available published tests of phonological awareness are often used by teachers, psychologists and speech therapists to help understand difficulties in this aspect of language and literacy.

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Phonological awareness is one component of a larger phonological processing system used for speaking and listening.

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Phonological awareness is different from other phonological abilities in that it is a metalinguistic skill, requiring conscious awareness and reflection on the structure of language.

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Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness that focuses specifically on recognizing and manipulating phonemes, the smallest units of sound.

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Phonemic Phonological awareness relates only to speech sounds, not to alphabet letters or sound-spellings, so it is not necessary for students to have alphabet knowledge in order to develop a basic phonemic Phonological awareness of language.

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Phonological awareness skills develop in a predictable pattern similar across languages progressing from larger to smaller units of sound .

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Development of phonological awareness is closely tied to overall language and speech development.

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Phonological awareness is an important determiner of success in learning to read and spell.

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Phonological awareness instruction improves reading and spelling skills, but the reverse is true: literacy instruction improves phonological awareness skills.

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All levels of phonological awareness ability contribute to reading abilities in the Kindergarten through second grade.

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In both encoding and decoding, phonological awareness is needed because the child must know the sounds in the words in order to relate them to the letter sounds.

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Phonological awareness is an auditory skill that is developed through a variety of activities that expose students to the sound structure of the language and teach them to recognize, identify and manipulate it.

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Early phonological awareness instruction involves the use of songs, nursery rhymes and games to help students to become alert to speech sounds and rhythms, rather than meanings, including rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and prosody.

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Phonological awareness is technically only about sounds and students do not need to know the letters of the alphabet to be able to develop phonological awareness.

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