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Parents can engage in phonological awareness and phonemic awareness activities at home.
In this blog we will look at my favorite activities for developing phonological awareness in your child.
You can build your child’s word awareness in just a few minutes each day.
First, let’s take a look at the recommended starting order for phonological awareness activities.
It is important to keep in mind that you always want to start with simple activities versus complex activities.
Building word awareness should be your first goal.
You can use plastic chips, dried pasta, or cereal to represent words in a sentence. You can also have your child use body percussion movements to represent words. The sentence “You are amazing!” has three words. Your child can tap, clap three times to indicate three words.
Focus on Compound Words
Next, focus on segmenting and blending compound words such as airplane and rainbow. To segment the word airplane, say the whole word. Then separate the compound word into two words: air and plane.
It is easier for children to segment whole words versus syllables in a word.
There’s no need to run out and purchase expensive manipulatives or books. You can choose words from books and items in your home.
Free Phonological Awareness Resource for Parents
To get you started, I have created a free phonological awareness resource for parents. You can download your free phonological awareness activity guide here.
It is important to note that phonological awareness activities are an addition to and not a substitute for letter recognition activities. Both are equally important foundational skills.
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