The Truth about Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness is the ability to discern sound units smaller than a single syllable. It is imperative that children learn these small sound units at an early age and it is not an easy task. First, the letters of the alphabet must be learned, but the sounds of the letters must be taught next. Teach children as early as age 3 and 4 each individual sound that each individual letter makes. This process is the base children must have to be able to learn the next sequence of sounds. Resources such as picture books that show the letter and an accompanying picture work well.

Vowels (short first, then long) must be taught next. By making a game out of this learning process, the child's interest is not lost. Parents and teachers alike can be very creative. Now is the time to use that creativity to make learning and
Teaching blends as in two-letter and three-letter blends must be taught after the vowels (short and long) are mastered, but that's another paper.A child's level of phonemic awareness on entering school is widely held to be the strongest single determinant of the success that he or she will experience in a href = http://www.childfont.com/">learning to read, or conversely, the likelihood that he or she will fail )Adams 1990). Parents who home school their children and teachers in the business of educating our students should be aware of this research and seek counsel from Reading Specialists to assure our children do not fail to

Child Font Phonics curriculum is written by Brenda Geier, a K-12

Reading Specialist high quality Educator and Scholar.While teaching

in a L4 locked-down facility for troubled youth, Ms. Geier was deeply

moved and strongly concerned about the poor reading performance

(affecting all academic areas) by the majority of enrolled students.

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