Emergent Literacy and Phonological Awareness

2. Vowel and consonants that follow the onset in a word
4. The ability to blend sounds together to create a word
6. The ability to break words down into individual sounds
8. The ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words
9. The smallest unit of meaning in a word
11. A tool that is used to show children what written language looks like
12. first step to emergent literacy
14. A tool used for helping children to learn about the sounds and letters in words. They help children become aware of the sequence of sounds in words
15. The smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word
16. Initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word
17. Skills Literacy step in which the child develops the ability to tell a story or describe a sequence of events
18. Refers to sound and letter relationships. It connects sounds and written letters
19. When words start with the same sound
21. Sound in the absence of letters. Hearing syllables, onset and rimes, individual sounds, and initial sounds
22. Words that have the same ending sound

1. Occurs when children understand that the letters are unique from each other and begin to recognize different letters and sounds
3. The broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes
5. Splitting a word into different segments of sound
6. The ability to manipulate words and sounds by taking away or adding letters/sounds
7. a child’s knowledge of reading and writing skills before they learn how to read and write words
10. The study of speech sounds
12. a step in which the child learns how to handle a book and recognize the differences between letters and words
13. Significant predictor to a child’s overall academic achievement
20. Smallest unit of sound in speech