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Tips To Build Phonological Awareness

1. The document provides tips for building phonological awareness in children at home. It recommends reading aloud frequently and pointing out rhymes and repeated sounds in books. 2. Activities like rhyming games, singing nursery rhymes, and clapping syllables can help children learn about rhymes and the sounds in words. 3. Games like "I Spy" and breaking apart compound words into individual sounds help children practice different phonological skills like identifying beginning sounds, rhyming words, and segmenting words.

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Tips To Build Phonological Awareness

1. The document provides tips for building phonological awareness in children at home. It recommends reading aloud frequently and pointing out rhymes and repeated sounds in books. 2. Activities like rhyming games, singing nursery rhymes, and clapping syllables can help children learn about rhymes and the sounds in words. 3. Games like "I Spy" and breaking apart compound words into individual sounds help children practice different phonological skills like identifying beginning sounds, rhyming words, and segmenting words.

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Tips to build

Phonological Awareness

at home
1. Listen up.
Good phonological awareness starts with kids picking up on sounds, syllables and rhymes in the
words they hear. Read aloud to your child frequently. Choose books that rhyme or repeat the
same sound. Draw your child’s attention to rhymes: “Fox, socks, box! Those words all rhyme. Do
you hear how they almost sound the same?”
It also helps to point out repeated sounds. For example, if you’re reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red
Fish, Blue Fish, ask your child to listen to the /fffff/ sound in fish. (Really stretch the sounds out
at first.) Outside of story time, try pointing out other words that start with the /fffff/ sound, just
like in the book.

2. Focus on rhyming.
Ask your child to pick out the rhyming words in books by himself. Ask, “Did you hear a word that
rhymes with fox?” Teach your child nursery rhymes and practice saying them together. Or say
four short words, like log, cat, hog, frog. See if your child can pick out the word that doesn’t
rhyme.

3. Follow the beat.


Teach your child about syllables by clapping the “beats” he hears in words. Let’s say you choose
the word elephant. Pause as you say each syllable—e-le-phant—and clap out each syllable
together. You can also get your child up and moving by having him stomp or jump with each
syllable.

4. Get into guesswork.


Guessing games such as “I spy” can be used to work on almost any phonological skill. Want to
practice noticing what sounds word begin with? Try “I spy something red that starts with /s/.”
Want to work on rhymes? “I’m wearing something warm that rhymes with boat.”
5. Carry a tune.
Singing in general is a great way to get kids rhyming. There are also good songs teachers use to
focus on other kinds of phonological and phonemic awareness skills. “Apples and Bananas” is a
fun one. You can search online for more songs about phonemic awareness or ask your child’s
teacher for recommendations.

6. Connect the sounds.


Sound blending is an important skill for early readers. They need to put sound units—
phonemes—together to be able to read a word smoothly. You can help your child start working
on this by putting together the sounds he hears. Ask him to connect the beginning sound with
the rest of a word. For example, tell him, “Start with /p/ and add /ig/. What do word do you hear
if you put them together?”

7. Break apart words.


Have your child work on hearing a word and taking it apart. Start by using compound words such
as cowboy, baseball or firefly. Tell him, “Say the word cowboy. Now take away boy. What word
is left?”
You can also use Lego bricks to make this point. Give your child two attached Lego bricks to
represent parts of the word. Then have him physically take the Lego pieces apart as he removes
part of the word.

8. Get creative with crafts.


Kids respond to hands-on learning. Try making a collage of items that start with the same sound
using pictures from magazines. Sock puppets can be another fun way to work on these skills.
Make one that likes to munch on words that start with a certain sound. Let your child have fun
“feeding” his puppet different objects or pictures that start with that sound.

9. Search online.
There are many resources and ideas online to work on phonological and phonemic awareness
skills. Check out YouTube for teaching videos, Pinterest for phonology games and crafts, or the
app store for nursery rhymes, sound games and songs.
Whatever you do, keep the activities short and fun. If your child finds one activity too difficult or
boring, try something different.

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