Phonological Awareness Level 2
In phonological awareness training, there is a big transition as children go from bigger chunks of language to hearing individual sounds in words. This is for a couple of reasons: training, there is a big transition as children go from bigger chunks of language to hearing individual sounds in words. This is for a couple of reasons:
Individual phonemes are the smallest pieces of
language that are used in reading and writing.- Phonics instruction (adding the written component to sound knowledge) can begin to be taught and soon it can be taught almost simultaneously with phonological instruction.
Phonological Awareness level 2 begins with tightening up the concept of sound order. This is first done through practice with syllables and onset and rime. Then this continues to develop as children learn to break simple words apart into individual sounds and put them back together.
Following is a list of skills for Level 2 with sub-skills listed for each. A good goal is for children to master these skills before entering first grade.
Syllables
- Order of syllables
- Building word families
Individual Phonemes
- Recognizing word families
- First/middle/last
Word Families
- Blending
- Segmenting
- Order
Ideas for developing these skills:
- Say one syllable of a word that has two syllables. Ask your child to tell you if that syllable is first or last.
- Say four words--three of which belong to the same word family (cat, hat, mat or pig, wig, big). Ask your child to tell you which word does not belong.
- Model how to break a simple word into individual sounds. Do this many times.
- Say the individual sounds of a word and ask your child to put them together into a word.
You will find more information about phonological and phonemic awareness on our level 1 and level 3 pages.
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