Phonological awareness is an important skill that plays a big role in reading development. Take a few minutes to answer the questions below as you think about how to promote this skill for the preschoolers in your classroom.

Practices that Encourage Phonological Awareness:

  1. Read books aloud to children that play with sounds, letters, rhyming, and words
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  2. Sing songs that help children play with sounds, letters, rhyming, and words
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  3. Identify words and sounds that rhyme
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  4. Talk about letters and their sounds
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  5. Include print labels for activities, materials, and routines and talk about their letters and sounds
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  1. Read and sing poems to children and have them fill in words or create their own lines
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  2. Play games that emphasize or draw attention to sounds, words, and letters
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  3. Respond positively with encouragement when children identify or recognize sounds
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  4. Work individually and with groups of children to ensure all children are developing phonological awareness
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  5. Involve families in early language and literacy activities by sending home lists of books the children are reading and activities for promoting phonological awareness at home during daily routines
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