What is Phonological Awareness? Why is it important?
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and work with sounds in spoken language. This includes identifying and manipulating parts of words, such as syllables, rhymes, and individual phonemes (the smallest units of sound). While often associated with early literacy, phonological awareness isn’t solely about letters; it’s about the sounds that letters represent.
It is important to contrast phonological awareness to phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness consists in the identification of the smallest sounds of language (phonemes) which can be done by stretching sounds in a word to help learners identify them. It is part of phonological awareness which encompasses word sounds, rhyming and syllables inside a word.
How to work phonological awareness? This is something that learners will not realize on their own, strategic guidance is necessary to develop any type of awareness. Teachers must begin from higher levels (word sounding) down to middle levels (Syllable and rhyming) until the bottom (phonemes) in order to cover the whole spectrum of the phonological awareness process.
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