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What is Phonological Awareness?
• It is an auditory skill.
• Teaches children to tune into the rhythm and sounds of language.
• It is the ability to hear and play with (manipulate) the sounds of spoken language.
• It is vital in developing reading and spelling skills for future learning.
• It requires repetition and explicit emphasis.
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognise that words are made up of sounds. It's a key skill for learning to read.
Early phonological awareness
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Rhyming: Children can identify words that rhyme, and produce rhyming words.
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Alliteration: Children can recognise the initial sounds of words and find other words that have the same initial sound.
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Syllables: Children can clap out syllables to notice that words have parts.
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