What Is Phonological Awareness

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Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training is a “general practice aimed at enhancing young children’s phonological awareness, print awareness, and early reading abilities” (website). This practice is adding two skills together, phonological awareness and letter knowledge training. Phonological awareness itself is the awareness of the sound structure of words is understanding that words are composed of phonemes, “the smallest units of sound in spoken words” (Smith, Simmons, & Kame’enui) and can be manipulated to make new words and involves training activities to teach children to “identify, detect, delete, segment, or blending segments of spoken words”( wwc) . According to Smith et al (1998), phonological awareness can be

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