Phonemic Awareness and Alphabetic Principle

Phonemic awareness is an understanding that spoken language and words are made up of individual sounds.

In terms of performance, phonemic awareness is defined as the ability to pick out and manipulate sounds in spoken words and language

Assessing phonemic awarness

The ability to determine a rhyme is the asiest of all phonemic awareness tasks.

Oddity tasks require that students spot the "odd word out" of a list of spoken words.

The counting task, is designed to measure children's development of syllable and phoneme awareness.

The initial consonant sounds test measures whether children have developed the awareness of beninning sounds in spoken words.

Same-different word pair task is to measure children's development of syllable, onset and rime, and phoneme awareness

Assessing alphabetic principle

Alphabet awareness task determines whether children can in some way identify the concept of an alphabet in written and spoken language.

Teaching the alphabetic system

Playing with the alphabet is good because children can learn the alphabetic principle by enjoying playful activities centering on letter naming, letter sounds, and the connection netween letter names and sounds.

Subtopic

Alphabetical Principle- letter name learning requires students to actively process a variety of information about letters.

Instruction should include recognition of letter formsw (upper and lowercase), formation of letters in writing, and the speech sounds commonly associated with specific letters.

It is best introduced by explicitly linking phonemic awareness with alphabet letters, which is called letter-sound matching.

Assessing letter knowledge

Letter identification determines whether readers with special learning needs can identify letters of the alphabet.

Strategies for teaching phonemic awareness

Grab the odd one out is a game to help children develop phonemic awareness through a playful oddity task activity.

Sing it out has the kids blend spoken sounds together to form words.