PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Phonological awareness is the awareness of the sound structures in the English Language. It is inclusive of but not limited to alliteration, phonemic awareness, onset-rime, rhyme, syllabification and morphology awareness. 

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It is important to note that phonological and phonemic awareness enhancement activities are about oral sounds and listening. Auditory activities that enhance these abilities are initially completed without letter representations until it becomes appropriate to introduce letter representations.

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PHONEMIC AWARENESS

Phonemic Awareness is having the capacity to identify and manipulate the individual sounds in words. It is a strong predictor for reading success.

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SYLLABIFICATION:

Dividing words into syllables, either in speech or writing. It is important to remember that each syllable contains a vowel sound. There are 6 rules for syllabification.

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MORPHOLOGY:

The study of how words are structured.

Morphemes: 

Meaningful morphological units of  a language that cannot be divided any further: prefixes / bases or roots / suffixes.

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Base words (latin roots) will form new words when suffixes are added to the end.

Examples: port + able = portable

                     success+ful=successful

Spelling conventions apply when adding suffixes.

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When prefixes are added to the beginning of base words (latin roots) new words are created.

Examples: sub+division=subdivision

                    infra+red=infrared

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