PHONOLOGICAL
Phonological awareness: The ability to recognize and manipulate the sound properties of spoken words, such as syllables, initial sounds, rhyming parts, and phonemes.
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Phoneme awareness: The ability to recognize and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words. (resource: Equipped for Reading Success, Kilpatrick, 2016)
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Below are screeners with instructions that are helpful for determining skill levels:
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A student may be struggling in this area if he/she has been provided with systematic, explicit and direct instruction and yet:
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Is not able to group words with similar and dissimilar sounds (mat, mug, sun)
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Is not able to blend and split syllables (f oot)
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Is not able to blend sounds into words (m_a_n)
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Is not able to segment a word as a sequence of sounds (e.g., fish is made up of three phonemes, /f/ , /i/, /sh/)
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Is not able to detect and manipulate sounds within words (change r in run to s).
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University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning
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Phonological Interventions
An intervention to help a student recognize and produce rhyming words.
An intervention to help a student learn that words are made up of common sounds and spellings.
Word Boxes/Elkonin Boxes Instructions and Printables
An intervention to help a student demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
FCRR Variety of Phoneme Interventions