Building Strong Reading Foundations for Pre-K & Kindergarten Students
Phonological Awareness starts early when toddlers imitate what they hear. It is an essential reading skill to hear and say individual sounds within words. It does not involve print. It is the beginning foundation for phonics.
When kids are of age to enter PreK and Kindergarten, they are ready to engage in fun phonological activities such as:
Matching pictures of rhyming words
Matching pictures with same beginning sounds
Matching pictures with same ending sounds
Sound Boxes
Reading Readiness
Reading readiness is a transition time for kids to learn to hear and say the individual sounds in words (phonological awareness) in their correct order to make words(word awareness). They also need to practice (oral language comprehension). This means that kids listen to someone reading aloud a sentence to them. Then kids can answer questions or circle the right picture that shows what happened in the sentence. All activities do not include any print,
only pictures
