ECE 343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Phonemic Awareness, Phonological Awareness, Phonics
6 Oct 2020
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Phonological awareness - knowledge of sounds, syllables and of the word"s sound structure. Includes phonemic awareness: ability to manipulate sounds, such as blending sounds to create new words or segmenting words into sounds. Phonological awareness is the best predictor of reading ability from preschool through kindergarten. After that, reading is the best predictor of reading ability. Phonemic awareness - one type of phonological awareness that involves understanding that words contain individual speech sounds, or phonemes, and being able to manipulate these sounds. The ability to manipulate those sounds (without print) Phoneme - individual speech sound, the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes meaning. Phonics - the relationship between the sound system and the written language; the instructional approach of teaching this relationship. Grapheme - the written representation of a sound. Morpheme - the smallest meaningful units of language. Consonant digraph - two consonants together that stand for one sound - /ch/ /sh/
