Phonemic awareness Phonological awareness
{"Image DocumentName": "Phonemic awareness ??????? Phonological awareness ???????", "Image ImageDescription": "Phonological awareness \u2013 a broader term; analyze the overall sound structure of words. What rhymes with cat? Which word is longer \u2013 watermelon or house? Phonemic awareness \u2013 a more narrow term, analyze the specific sounds in words. What sound does box start with? Tell me the three sounds in the word cat. Terms are often used synonymously. . What is the difference between these two words? The words actually have different meanings. In the research literature, phonological awareness is the broader term. It actually an umbrella term for all tasks that require analysis of the sounds of language. Phonemic awareness is one type of phonological awareness skill. Phonemic awareness is the term we would use to refer to tasks that require us to specifically segment out the sounds in words. Rhyming words would be a phonological awareness task but not a phonemic awareness task. But telling me the sounds in the word BOX as /b/ /a/ /k/ /s/ is a phonological awareness task AND a phonemic awareness task. It is a phonemic awareness task because you have to specifically analyze the sounds in the word. In rhymes you generally pay attention to the overall sound structure of the word. The challenge is that in the educational practice literature, the terms get used interchangeably. Look at the title of the book for the kindergarten curriculum we have \u2013 PHONEMIC awareness in young children. Now flip to the table of contents and see that the curriculum includes lots of phonological awareness tasks that are not phonemic awareness tasks \u2013 for example, the whole chapter on rhymes! You decide how you want to use the terms. What is more important that how you use the terms is that you recognize that when we talk about tasks that require children to analyze the sound structure of words, we have tasks of many different levels of complexity. Because a child is good or skilled on one type of task, does not necessarily mean they will be successful on more complex tasks.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}