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English Language Arts and Literature (ELAL) K

Phonological Awareness: Related Curriculum

Organizing Idea

PHONOLOCIGAL AWARENESS: Children experiment with sounds in words.

 

Phonological Awareness: Foundational literacy is supported by the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in oral language.

  Guiding Question: How are sounds and oral language connected?

Learning Outcome: Children experiment with sounds in words.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Sounds can be identified at the beginning, middle, or end of words.

Words are made up of sounds (phonemes).

Identify sounds at the beginning of spoken words.

Identify sounds in the middle of spoken words.

Identify sounds at the end of spoken words.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Songs and poems can contain rhyming words.

Words that rhyme have the same sound at the end.

Explore rhyme in a variety of language-learning contexts.

Identify one-syllable rhyming words.

 

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Sounds can be identified at the beginning of words.

Sounds can be identified at the ending of words.

Words have initial and final sounds (phonemes).

Identify sounds at the beginning and ending of spoken words.

Sort words based on their initial sounds.

Sort words based on their final sounds.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Sentences can be separated into words.

Words can be separated into parts (e.g., syllables, onsets, rimes, phonemes, or the two individual words that compose a compound word).

Spoken language is made up of words and sentences that can be separated into parts (segmentation)

Count the number of words in a spoken sentence of three to four words.

Separate compound words into two individual words.

Identify the number of syllables in one- to three-syllable words.

Separate words into onsets and rimes.

 

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Two separate words can be blended to form a new word (compound word).

Two or more syllables can be blended to form a new word.

Sounds (phonemes) can be blended to form words.

Sounds can be blended to form spoken words.

Blend two words to form compound words.

Blend syllables to form words.

Blend onsets and rimes to form words.

Blend sounds to form words.

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

One of the words in a compound word can be removed.

Syllables in words can be removed.

Sounds in words (phonemes) can be removed.

Words have initial and final sounds (phonemes).

Delete one word from compound words.

Delete one syllable from multisyllabic words.

Delete onsets or rimes in words.

Phonological Awareness