Fostering Phonological Awareness 

·                Incorporate music and movement (the rhythm and rhymes in songs help with developing phonemic awareness)5

·                Go around to centers and ask questions and get students to converse while also giving them a model of how to speak5

·                Incorporate songs, poems, and chants into the day5

·                Have puppets for children to pay with to encourage them to talk to each other5

·                Play games that help kids break spoken words into sound parts (clap hands for each sound hear in a word)6

·                Teach nursery rhymes6

·                Play games involving rhyming6


Supporting Research: 

 “Most children require specific instruction to acquire the phonological awareness skill of segmentation, or the ability to segment words into their component phonemes, and often master it later than other foundations for print literacy.” (van Keeck, 1990)8