Teaching phonological awareness

Resources for building phonological awareness.

Confused with the terms of phonological awareness and phonemic awareness? Phonology is the study of vocal sounds. There is no print involved in this stage of literacy. It is an “eyes closed” stage in identifying and manipulating the sounds of oral language. Beginning with sentences, words, syllables, onsets, rimes and ending with phonemes.

In today's post, I'll describe the different phonological awareness skills I teach, as well as provide free phonological awareness interventions to help your students improve in each area.

These 13 picture books are fun to read and perfect for teaching phonological awareness and phonics skills in kindergarten and first grade.

Blending and segmenting are crucial skills for developing strong reading abilities. In this blog post, we'll share some free activities that can help you teach blending, segmenting, and phonological awareness in an engaging way

Learn how to use these CVC beginning sound clip cards as a fun, hands-on way to work on letter sounds, beginning sounds, and initial phonemic awareness skills. Find many ideas to use these printable

Songs are an excellent way to build phonemic awareness skills because they focus on the task of listening. Click to hear them all!

Research shows that phonemic awareness is the strongest predictor of success in learning to read. Heggerty offers literacy activities for families.

How to teach phonological awareness skills in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Hands-on activities to make learning fun.

Using picture books is a great way to work on building phonological awareness. Use picture books to teach words, syllables and sounds