Phonemic Awareness and Alphabetic Principle

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Phonemic Awareness and

Alphabetic Principle
Talk
- Ability to string basic speech
sounds together into words

Phonological Awareness
The general ability to attend to the
sounds of language as distinct from
its meaning
The phonological aspects of a
language include intonation, stress
and timing as well as attending to
words, onset and rime, syllables and
phonemes

Alphabetic Principle (AP)


The AP is the idea that letters in
words usually stand for specific
sounds.

The AP and reading


Four sources of information:
1. Visual (pint)-, the letters, format and
layout
2. phonology - the sounds and/or
letters
3. syntax or sentence structure
4. semantics, illustrations and text
meaning (in context)

Phonological awareness
Understanding that spoken language
is composed of smaller units such as
phrases, words, syllables, onsets,
rimes and phonemes (sounds)
Reading and writing skills is built on
the development of phonological
awareness (Adams, 2001; Goswami,
2000, 2001)

Phonemic awareness
Is a specific term than focuses on small
units of sound that affect meaning the
spoken word dog has three phonemes d,
o, g (graphemes)
Conscious attention to the sounds in words.
E.g. pa and ba
Involves attention to words, syllables,
rhyme, alliteration and analysis of
phonemes

Words words and word spaces


Syllables beat (help to read and
write compound words)
Rhyme words with the same final
sound (rap, chants, advertising
jingles, pop songs)

Phonological awareness
Of intonation, stress and timing found in
rhymes, jingles, advertisements and pop
songs on radio and TV.
E.g. - The Three Little Pigs (refrain works
because the emphasis placed on particular
words and the timing for saying the refrain
is very important)
The individual words huffed and puffed
sound the same except for the initial
phonemes /h/ and /p/.

Self-formulated spelling invented


spelling (e.g. wif for with)
Conventional spelling

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