Phonemic & Phonological Skills Handout

Teaching phonological and phonemic awareness skills is such a critical component in helping our little learners acquire the necessary building blocks to become proficient readers and writers. Understanding the sequence of phonological/phonemic development and the approximate ages of mastery helps us to know which skills to emphasize in our instruction.

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What is Phonemic and Phonological Awareness?

Phonological awareness is an encompassing understanding that speech can be broken into smaller segments of sounds. Great readers can recognize different parts such as words, syllables, onsets and rhymes, and phonemes. So, teaching these skills through age-appropriate activities is critical to developing readers.

Phonemic awareness is one aspect of phonological awareness. This is the understanding and ability to hear and identify individual sounds (phonemes) in words. Therefore, this gives the child the ability to focus on and manipulate each sound separately.

Developmental Phonemic Awareness Activities

Check out our original, Make, Take & Teach Printable Phonemic Awareness Activities

Some of our most popular activities include Phonemic Awareness Activity Pack, Big Bundle of Rhyme Activities, Race Car Blending & finally the best selling learning series Cookie Sheet Activites Pre K- K Bundle.