8. Top Q&As About Syllable Awareness

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  Is syllable awareness beneficial to students? Specifically, do I need to teach syllables as a phonological awareness skill before I teach phonemes?

  The research is not definitive about this. In practice, younger children and children with less experience playing with and thinking about language will, at first, have a hard time with phoneme-level tasks, like separating onset from rime. Syllable-level tasks can pave the way for phoneme-level activities ...
  

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  How is being able to add syllables together to form a new word helpful to becoming a skilled reader?

  Learning syllable awareness tasks — such as blending, segmenting, deleting, and adding — at the phonological level builds a foundation that is helpful to have when students are ready to learn more complex phonics and language skills. Children in kindergarten ...

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