1. WHAT IS PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS? ability to ANALYZE sounds of language *can be at the WORD, SYLLABLE, or PHONEME level (Wagner & Torgesen, 1987)

2. PHONEMIC AWARENESS Phonological awareness Phonemic Awareness Listening Rhyme and alliteration Sentence Segmentation Onset and Rimes Phonemes

3. WHAT IS PHONEMIC AWARENESS? Ability to think about and manipulate individual phonemes o Phonemes are not letters they are individual speech sounds o Some individual speech sounds are represented by letters and others are not

4. EXAMPLES TRANSPARENT Bat \b\ a\t\ TRANSPARENT Slip \s\ l\i\p\ BA T SLIPSLIP

5. TRANSPARENT Fox \f\o\k\s\ OPAQUE F O K S Rocks \r\o\k\s\ ROKSROKS

6. OPAQUETRANSPARENT Hawk \h\a\w\k\ Chalk \ch\a\k\ CH A K H A W K

7. OPAQUE Dodge \D\o\j\ TRANSPARENT Genie \j\e\n\e\ D OJ J E N E

8. TRANSPARENT We \w\e\ OPAQUE Tree \t\r\e\ WEWE TRETRE

9. TRANSPARENT Kwik \k\w\i\k\ OPAQUE Squid \s\k\w\i\d\ K W I K S K W I D

10. TRANSPARENTOPAQUE Stink \s\t\i\ng\k\ Ring \r\i\ng\ R I NG S T I NG K

11. BARRIERS TO EXPLICIT PHONEMIC AWARENESS ONCE LITERATE  Orthography or written language makes it difficult to think beyond print in order to analyze speech sounds.  In English there is not a one to one correspondence for letters to sounds. School S K U L S OOH C L

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