Phonological Awareness
Define Phonological Awareness.
Phonological Awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds of spoken language, including awareness of words, syllables, onsets, and rimes.
What is Phoneme Isolation?
Phoneme Isolation is identifying individual sounds in a word, such as recognizing the first sound in "cat."
Define Phonics.
Answer: Phonics is a method of teaching reading that focuses on the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent.
Name the 6 types of syllables.
Answer: Closed, open, silent e, vowel team, r-controlled, and consonant-le.
What type of words can we blend and segment at the WORD level of Phonological Awareness?
Compound words.
Break "computer" into syllables.
Answer: com-put-er.
What does a teacher say for Phoneme Blending?
Teacher: "What do you get when I say /k/ /a/ /t/?" Student: "Cat."
What are Consonant Blends?
Answer: Consonant Blends are combinations of two or more consonants where each sound is heard, such as "bl" in "black."
Break "organizer" into syllables.
Answer: or-gan-iz-er.
Define morphemic analysis.
Analyzing words by the roots, and affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
Explain the levels of Phonemic Awareness.
Levels include phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, addition, deletion, and substitution, each progressively increasing in complexity.
Break "click" into individual phonemes.
Answer: /k/ /l/ /i/ /k/.
Give an example of a Vowel Digraph.
Answer: "ea" in "bread."
Break "preventable" into syllables. Label each type.
Answer: pre-ven-ta-ble. (open, closed, open, -le)
Explain the difference between open and closed syllables.
Answer: An open syllable ends in a vowel that is long (e.g., "be"), while a closed syllable ends in a consonant, making the vowel sound short (e.g., "cat").
Define Onset and Rime. Give an example.
Using a 1 syllable word, the onset is everything before the vowel and the rime is the VOWEL and all that follows.
spr-ing
What's more difficult, blending /c/, /a/, /t/ to say cat or changing the /c/ in cat to a /b/ to make bat.
Changing the /c/ in cat to a /b/ to make bat. Phoneme substitution
Define Diphthongs and give an example.
Answer: Diphthongs are complex vowel sounds that begin with one vowel sound and glide into another, such as "oi" in "boil."
Break "turpentine" into syllables. Label each syllable.
Answer: tur-pen-tine. r-controlled, closed, silent e
Define Phoneme Blending and its significance.
Answer: Phoneme Blending is combining individual sounds to form a word. It is significant as it helps students decode new words while reading.
What is the alphabetic principle?
The understanding that letters and letter combinations (graphemes) represent sounds (phonemes) in spoken language, which allows readers to decode or sound out words
What is the purpose of teaching Phonological and phonemic awareness skills?
Helps students hear sounds as they blend which prepares them for decoding.
What are High Frequency Words and heart words?
Answer: High Frequency Words are commonly used words that students are encouraged to recognize instantly, such as "the," "and," or "is." Heart words are those that are phonetically irregular and need to be memorized by HEART.
What is the purpose of teaching syllable types?
So readers can chunk and correctly read multi- syllable word.
Break "unbelievable" into syllables and label each one.
un-be-liev-able: closed, open, vowel team, -le