Levels of Phonological Awareness

1. Rhyme recognition: 3-4 years

• Children at this age can recognize rhyming words and enjoy rhyme and alliteration.

• Finish the rhyme, sad-bad, sit-____

• Children may be struggling if they cannot complete the rhyme












2. Awareness of syllables: 4-5years

• Children at this age can split words into parts

• Clap the syllables for cupcake

• Children may be struggling if they cannot identify the number of syllables











3. Sound isolation and blending: 5-6years

• Kids can identify the beginning, middle, and end sound of a word

• They can split a word into phonemes and blend the phonemes into a word

• What is the beginning sound in “hot?”

• What does “/r/ /e/ /d/” say?

• Children may be struggling if they cannot identify the phonemes or blend them together


4. Phoneme substitution and deletion: 7+ years

• Kids can delete or substitute an initial, medial, or end sound to create a new word

• Change the /r/ in rake to /f/

• Say flock without the /f/

• Children may be struggling if they cannot say the word correctly after changing or deleting a phoneme



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