Phonological Awareness
Explore the power that students have to engage in meaningful interactions by learning to identify and manipulate the individual sound units within spoken words.
Explainer video
What is Phonological Awareness?
Explore how sounds are used to form the building blocks of words by learning about phonological awareness.
Supporting Resources
Microlearn Module
Rhythm and Rhyme
How much can rhyming and rhythm effect the meaning communicated with words?
6-8 Minutes
Test students’ ability to identify rhymes with an activity that explores the importance of the underlying rhythm of language.
Microlearn Module
Sounds Sequence
Can you tweak the sounds of words to create new kinds of meaning?
6-8 Minutes
Students will stretch and blend words in creative ways while learning about the sequential structure of language.
Microlearn Module
Sound Manipulation
Does the sound of a word help you remember or understand its meaning?
6-8 Minutes
Discover the many ways students can express themselves by the way they shape the sounds of words.
Masterclass
Building Phonological Awareness
Sound Strategies in Action
6-8 Minutes
Observe an educator modeling two research-based key strategies—Phoneme Segmenting (Strategy 1) and Say It, Move It (Strategy 2)—in a small group setting with emergent readers. Discover how these hands-on activities help young learners develop essential phonological awareness skills, laying the foundation for reading success.
Task Cards
Task Cards
Early Literacy Strategies
6-8 Minutes
Expanding on the strategies from our Discovery Literacy microlearns, these versatile strategies are easy to incorporate into mini lessons, as a warm-up or wrap-up, or part of learning stations.
Ready-to-Use Activity
Rhythm and Rhyme
Slideshow
6-8 Minutes
Use this activity to support phonological awareness by completing two tasks that focus on rhyming words. This activity uses the "I do, we do, you do" strategy.
Ready-to-Use Activity
Sounds Sequence
Slideshow
6-8 Minutes
Use this activity to support phonological awareness by completing two tasks that focus on blending and segmenting phonemes. This activity uses the "I do, we do, you do" strategy.
Ready-to-Use Activity
Sound Manipulation
Slideshow
6-8 Minutes
Use this activity to support phonological awareness by completing three tasks that focus on beginning, middle, and ending sounds. This activity uses the "I do, we do, you do" strategy.
