Importance of phoneme awareness

Definition

Aspects

Impact on language

Teaching strategies for the component

Reasons why learners might struggle with the component

To identify and hear individual sounds in spoken words.

How sounds work in a word

Speech sounds

Syllables

Rhymes

beginning sounds

Helps children comprehend what they read

Increase their ability to understand what they read

Have a impact on young readers

They have no idea what each letter of the alphabet present.

Do not know what the term sound means.

Recognize and group sounds

Combine sounds to form words

Remove or add new sounds to form new words

Switch sounds to form new words