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This is when young children become aware that you can manipulate and analyze  language in different ways such as rhyming, playing with words, and talking about words as objects. There is a continuum that children must go though to become more phonemically aware. The continuum starts with whole words and ends with recognizing individual phonemes. A phoneme is a the smallest unit of speech; c/ a / t

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This is when children become aware of individual phonemes in our language and can manipulate them in different ways. Phonemes are the smallest unit of speech sound. Another way to say this is: being able to hear each sound as an individual unit. Phonemic awareness is part of phonological awareness and is the most advanced part.

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Phonological and phonemic awareness are important because it is the foundation for spelling and word recognition skills. Phonemic awareness is one of the best predictors of how well children will learn to read during the first two years of school instruction. It is the beginning stages of reading and writing and it is very important that they have those skills when it is time to start reading.

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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness help Prepare Students for Phonics Instruction

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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness help Prepare Students for Phonics Instruction

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Phonics instruction is when students correlate physical letters and sounds. Phonological and phonemic awareness prepare students for this by helping them recognize how words sound. Students are able to recognize that words can be broken down into individual sounds as well. They are creating the foundation that is needed to start phonics instruction.

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Another great way to build your child's phonological awareness is through song! There are so many songs that can develop different types of phonological awareness. I will demonstrate a song that helps with phoneme blending. You will be splitting words into phonemes and your child will have to tell you what the word is. This song is to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down. I will be showing you how to do this with the word "run" but you can do this with any word that you would like.

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If you are looking for a fun activity at home that can help your child with their phonological awareness you can easily make this with things around the house!

To help children who are working on syllables, write on a piece of paper and give them familiar objects with varying syllables. For example, you can see in the picture that there is a cake which would go under one because it has one syllable and a dinosaur which would go with three because it is has three syllables. To add another component ask your child to clap out the syllables in the words when they say them.