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• The Building Blocks of Literacy

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Understanding the Connection Between Decoding and
Comprehending
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Book and Print Awareness

• Earliest building block of literacy usually
  occurs between the ages of 3 and 5 (pre K and
  Kindergarten)
• Assessment of Book and Print Awareness is
  measured through something usually called a
  Concepts of Print (CAP) Assessment

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• PHONOLOGICAL AND PHONEMIC AWARENESS.

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• PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
• (Understanding that spoken language made up of
  words AND words made up of individual sounds-
  ability to distinguish units of sound auditorily)

Concept of word
Syllables
Phonemic Awareness
Rhyme
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PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• Deals with phonemes smallest units of sound
• Common components of phonemic awareness using
  cat
• Initial/final sound (cat or cat)
• Onset and rime (/c/ and /at/)
• Blending and segmenting (/c/ /at/ /cat/)

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Phonemic Awareness
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• Now, moving on.
• PHONICS!!!

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• PHONICS refers to letter sound relationship in
  WRITTEN words
• (No eyes closed here)
• Recognizing and naming letters
• Letter/sound correspondence
• Long and short vowel sounds
• Different phoneme combinations, and their
  respective sounds
• rat vs. rate

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Alphabetic Principle

• Part of Phonics
• The relationship between letters and their
  corresponding sounds
• identifying and naming alphabet letters
• understanding sound-symbol correspondences and
  spelling patterns
• using knowledge about these patterns to decode
  words
• Test yourself What is the difference between
  phonemic awareness and phonics?

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Phonics and the Alphabetic Principle
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Test your skills

• Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, or
  phonics? You tell me!
• Pointing to the letter B and asking child what
  sound it makes
• PHONICS!
• Asking a student what words rhyme with hat
• PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS!
• Asking a student to identify the beginning sound
  in the word short
• PHONEMIC AWARENESS!