Foundations Of Reading

Front 1

Define phonological awareness

Back 1

the awareness that oral language is composed of smaller units, such as spoken words and syllables

Front 2

Define phonemic awareness

Back 2

a specific type of phonological awareness involving the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes in a spoken word.

Front 3

Name some levels of phonological and phonemic awareness skills.

Back 3

1) rhyming
2) segmenting
3) blending
4) deleting
5) substituting

Front 4

Phonemes are represented by:

Back 4

letters and letter pairs

Front 5

Phonemic Awareness is:

Back 5

the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in spoken words.

Front 6

What do children need to become aware of before they learn to read?

Back 6

They must become aware of how the sounds in words work.

Front 7

Phonemes are:

Back 7

the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in the word's meaning. For example, changing the first phoneme in the word hat from /h/ to /p/ changes the word from hat to pat, and so changes the meaning.

Front 8

What does a letter between slash marks show us?

Back 8

Shows a phoneme, or sound, that the letter represents, NOT the name of the letter.
example: h represents /h/

Front 9

How can children show us they have phonemic awareness?

Back 9

1) recognizing which words in a set of words begins with the same sound - bell, bike, boy all have /b/ in the beginning
2) isolating and saying the first or last sound in a word. - beginning sound of dog is /d/, the ending sound of sit is /t/.
3) Combining or blending the separate sounds in a word to say the word /m/,/a/,/p/, map.
4) Breaking or segmenting a word into its separate sounds - up - /u/, /p/

Front 10

Phonemic awareness is sometimes also mistakes as the same thing as:

Back 10

Phonics. But it is not the same thing as phonics.