Components of Effective Reading Instruction: Phonemic
Awareness
Phonemic awareness is only one part of the broader skill phonological awareness. The following chart shows the continuum of phonological awareness skills.
Continuum of Phonological Awareness Skills in Increasing Degrees of Difficulty
Type | Subtype | Example |
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Rhyme | Recognition |
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Production |
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Alliteration | Recognizing words with the same initial sounds |
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Words in sentences | Sentence segmentation |
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Syllables | Blending |
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Segmenting |
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Deletion |
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Onsets and Rimes | Blending |
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Phoneme | Matching Initial Sound Isolating Initial Sound Final sounds Medial sounds |
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Phoneme | Blending |
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Phoneme | Segmenting |
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Phoneme | Manipulation: | |
Initial and final phoneme deletion |
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Initial phoneme in blend deletion |
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Phoneme substitution |
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Second phoneme in blend deletion |
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From Handout 4 from the Just Read, Florida! K-3 Reading Academy