Phonological awareness is an auditory skill, and with beginning readers, instruction starts with a group of skills that enable children to recognize and manipulate parts of spoken words, including syllables , onset-rime , and phoneme s. Phonological awareness activities include identifying, blending , segmenting, and manipulating syllables , onset-rime , and phoneme s in words.
This graphic illustrates the sequence of phonological awareness skills we teach to beginning readers.