Phonological Awareness: What Is It and How Does It Relate to Phonemic Awareness?

Phonological awareness is like an umbrella. Rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmentation, syllables, onset and rime, and phonemic awareness all exist under this umbrella, with phonemic awareness being the most advanced skill of phonological awareness.

Phonological Awareness is the ability to recognize that spoken words are made up of individual sound parts.

Word Level Rhyming

• bat

• cat

• hat
  

Alliteration

• Bold big brown bear

Sentence Segmentation

• I / see / the / dog = 4 words

Syllable Level

• ba - by = 2 syllables

• ex-er-cise = 3 syllables

Phonological Awareness is like an umbrella. Phonemic Awareness and other skills exist under this umbrella.

Onset & Rime Level

• Onset = map

• Rime = map

Phonemic Awareness Level

• /m/ /oo/ /n/ moon = 3 phonemes

Phonemic awareness is the most advanced skill of phonological awareness.

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National Center on Improving Literacy (2022). Phonological Awareness: What Is It and How Does It Relate to Phonemic Awareness? https://www.improvingliteracy.org/post/phonological-awareness-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-relate-to-phonemic-awareness