Scaffolding Phonological Awareness

Created Feb. 5, 2024 by Melissa Lander, Carole Butcher

                                       Supports when Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills

Task

Steps to Solve the Problems

Rhyme
  1. Say the words aloud

  2. Does my mouth do the same thing at the end?

  3. Do they sound the same at the end?

Initial and Final Sounds

  1. Say the words aloud

  2. Stretch continuing sounds (“mmmmmop”) or repeat short

Sounds (“p-p-p-p-an”)

  1. Segment the initial or final sounds (e.g. “p  -   an”)

Blend Sounds into Words
  1. Repeat the sounds, stretching the continuing sounds

  2. Blend sounds together, stretching the continuing sounds,

 including vowels

  1. Say the word with natural prosody

Segment Words into Sounds
  1. Repeat the word

  2. Stretch the continuing sounds and iterate the stop sounds

  3. Segment the words into sounds, saying each phoneme

 with distinct pauses between phonemes
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