Phonological Awareness in Young Children

This page provides information, videos and activities for promoting blending and segmenting in young children.

This article identifies the milestones for acquiring phonological skills. Basic listening skills and “word awareness” are critical precursors to phonological awareness.

This page provides eight lesson plans for activities that stimulate phonemic awareness in preschool and elementary school children to help get children ready for reading.

This article describes difficulties in phonological awareness from three perspectives: the child, the parent, and the teacher. It also offers strategies that each can use to deal with and address the issues.

This article provides simple at-home activities to use to help children understand the connection between the letters of the alphabet and the sound associated with each letter.

Phonological awareness is a skill that allows children to recognize and work with the sounds of spoken language. This article provides information about how parents can help their child strengthen phonological skills.

In this article, the authors highlight specific phonological awareness skills for preschoolers, then offer suggested activities to help children develop them.