If you are a professional early childhood educator, you must know the importance of phonological awareness as a foundation for literacy, precisely reading fluency. Word play, finger play, rhymes and alliterations are all a key component of Phonological awareness. Phonological awareness is the earliest and most basic skill that the children need to understand the alphabetic principle, that is to understand that the sentences are made of words and words of syllables and syllables of individual sounds and those individual sounds are represented by letters. The reason that is the children benefit from phonological awareness training is that children naturally focus on the meaning of the words, not sounds, but in English, in order for a child to learn to read the alphabets, he or she needs to know, hear and manipulate those individual sounds that make up the words. If you ask 7-year-old children who never had training in phonological awareness , how many sounds is the word "spring"? They'll probably say "one", while "spring" consists of 5 sounds, [s] [p] [r] [i] and [ng]. This clip is a little excerpt from our phonological awareness session at Aiwin International School, which the students look forward to everyday. Teachers usually fear teaching phonological awareness because they think it's boring, but it doesn't have to be, as a matter of fact, it MUST be fun and entertaining, otherwise, the students won't enjoy it and they won't be listening, and if they're not listening, they're not learning. Enjoy the clip and feel free to comment, share, like or subscribe.
