We have written a series of posts about phonological awareness. This is the ability to hear and tell the difference between sounds both in isolation and in words. You can read our other posts about listening to sounds, rhyme and syllables. Once a child can tell the difference between two sounds consistently, you can move on to […]
This is part of a series of posts on phonological awareness (listening to sounds). This is a really important skill when working on speech sounds. You can read our other posts on auditory discrimination and rhyming. Today I’m going to focus on identifying the number of syllables in a word. Syllables are the parts […]
Phonological awareness can be defined as the ability to explicitly access and manipulate the sound structure of spoken words – Hatcher, Duff and Hulme, Sound Linkage, 2014 So, what on earth does that mean?! It’s probably easiest to explain it by talking about some of the skills that are involved in phonological awareness. These include:- […]
As Elizabeth mentioned earlier in the week, we have been sent some lovely stuff to review. Our giveaway for the Key Verbs app is still open for a few more days – we have 6 copies to give away! Do click the link to read the review and enter the giveaway! Today, I’m going to […]
We’ve talked before about our love of Orchard Toys, here and here. They are good, sturdy games which look great , last well around enthusiastic children who like to test pieces out in their mouths (!) and are great fun too. A couple of weeks ago, Elizabeth posted about the Pig in Pants game. You […]
