🔤 Phonological Awareness

Build children's awareness of sounds in spoken language through playful, developmentally appropriate experiences.

LITERACY PRACTICES

Explore Sound Play

Invite children to listen closely, notice patterns, play with words, and hear the parts and sounds of language.

Use songs, poems, books, and playful word pairs to notice words that sound alike.

Clap names, classroom objects, movement words, and familiar vocabulary to hear parts of words.

Play sound matching, environmental sound, and beginning sound games during everyday routines.

Use repetition, rhythm, alliteration, and predictable language to make sound awareness joyful.