Tip 5 - Phonological Awareness
Discover how phonological awareness can strengthen preschool literacy skills.
These resources can help teachers and caregivers help children become aware of the sounds of words. This key skill involves the ability to hear, identify, make, and work with the sounds and sound patterns of spoken language.
Phonological awareness is one of the five key skills, or Big 5, in the Planned Language Approach. Resources on the other Big 5 skills cover alphabet knowledge and early writing, background knowledge, book knowledge and print concepts, and oral language and vocabulary.
Discover how phonological awareness can strengthen preschool literacy skills.
Learn how the Big 5 support early literacy for all children. Watch a short video to explore tools that build strong language skills.
Learn ways to develop young children’s phonological awareness and how families can help their children build this key skill. Find out how kindergartner, Joan, developed phonological awareness from birth.
Learn how to use the Planned Language Approach (PLA) to promote phonological awareness for children in your program. Explore the research and the development trajectory for these skills in children ages birth to 5.
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