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Phonological Awareness Corey Pollard Phonological Awareness Corey Pollard

How to Assess Phonological Awareness - Intervention Tip of the Week

This week we are talking all about how to effectively measure a student’s phonological awareness ability to track growth over time. It is important that we are monitoring a student’s phonological awareness because it is the foundation of the 5 Core Components of Literacy and must be in place before a student can read and spell with ease!

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Phonological Awareness Corey Pollard Phonological Awareness Corey Pollard

How do I Improve Phonological Awareness?

Phonological awareness is a key foundation for building early reading skills.

It's an umbrella term that essentially refers to the ability to break words into individual sounds, blend sounds to create words (sounding it out), and the ability to manipulate sounds in our language through tasks like rhyming, changing the ending sounds of words or the order of words (like in Pig Latin).

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