Phonological awareness in young children are the building blocks to reading. It is an auditory skill without letters attached. Beginning at age four, children will start to enjoy books and songs with rhymes and silly riddles. Along with rhyming and sounds in words, phonological awareness really focuses on blending and segmenting syllables and the beginning sound (onset) and the ending chunk (rime) of words. After that, children move on to the phoneme (individual sounds) level where they blend, segment, and manipulate spoken words. Ultimately, they are laying the foundation with phonological awareness for their future reading success.
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Below is a chart that provides a breakdown of each skill, a definition, an example, and the age children typically master each skill.
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