Kindergarten Phonological Resources - Weekly Information & Videos

Phonological awareness skills are important in order to develop good reading and spelling skills. Having good phonological awareness skills means that a child is able to manipulate sounds and words, or “play” with sounds and words. For example, you might ask your child to break the word “cat” into individual sounds: “c-a-t.”

 Important: These skills deal with SOUNDS not letters. For example,/t/ represents the sound and not the letter name “tee.” You will not use any written or visual letters when working with phonological activities. These activities are done with listening and speaking only.Learning the letter names and their corresponding sounds is also very important but should be taught and practiced at a different time of the day.

 During Kindergarten a focus will be placed on the following phonological awareness skills:

·       Blending syllables (e.g., “I am going to say parts of a word. Tell me what the word is. ‘Pan—da’”)

·       Segmentation of syllables (e.g., “Clap for each syllable you hear in the word ‘refrigerator.’” = Re-frig-er-a-tor)

·       Identifying the beginning and end sounds in words (e.g., “What sound do you hear at the end of ‘cat.’” = /t/)

·       Blending sounds (e.g., “Put these sounds together to make a word. ‘D-o-g.’” = ‘dog’)

·       Segmentation of sounds (e.g., Tell me each sound you hear in the word ‘cat.’?” = ‘c-a-t’)

This resource will have a weekly activity for your to work on with your child/student(s).  It will include a handout with information and guidance, as well as a video to help support you and the learner.  Select the week from the menu on the left to find the resources needed. 

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     Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edEapzei7gI

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