Standard 7 Phonological Awareness/Phonemic Awareness ACAP Prep

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What is phonological awareness?

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Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and work with sounds in spoken language. It includes skills like identifying and manipulating sounds in words.

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What is phonemic awareness?

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Phonemic awareness is a specific type of phonological awareness that focuses on the individual sounds (phonemes) in words. It involves the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate these sounds.

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word that can change its meaning. For example, changing the /c/ in 'cat' to /h/ makes it 'hat'.

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What is a syllable?

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A syllable is a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word. For example, the word 'banana' has three syllables: ba-na-na.

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What is blending in phonemic awareness?

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Blending is the ability to combine individual sounds to form a word. For example, blending the sounds /d/, /o/, and /g/ makes the word 'dog'.

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What is segmenting in phonemic awareness?

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Segmenting is the ability to break a word down into its individual sounds. For example, the word 'cat' can be segmented into /k/, /a/, and /t/.

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What is rhyming?

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Rhyming is the repetition of similar sounds in different words, usually at the end of the words. For example, 'cat' and 'hat' rhyme.

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What is an onset in phonology?

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An onset is the initial consonant sound of a syllable. For example, in the word 'star', the onset is /st/.

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What is a rime in phonology?

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A rime is the part of a syllable that contains the vowel and any following consonants. In 'star', the rime is /ar/.

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What is a diphthong?

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A diphthong is a complex vowel sound that begins with one vowel sound and glides into another within the same syllable, like in the word 'coin'.