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Phonemic Awareness

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Skills mastered by …

Age 3
  • Recitation of rhymes
  • Rhyming by pattern
  • Alliteration
Age 4
  • Syllable counting (50% of children by age 4)
Age 5
  • Syllable counting (90% of children by age 5)
Age 6
  • Initial consonant matching
  • Blending 2-3 phonemes
  • Counting phonemes (70% of children by age 6)
  • Rhyme identification
  • Onset-rime division
Age 7
  • Blending 3 phonemes
  • Segmentation of 3-4 phonemes (blends)
  • Phonetic spelling
    Phoneme deletion
Age 8
  • Consonant cluster segmentation
  • Deletion within clusters

Source: Straight Talk About Reading, Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D