Our classrooms have a strong phonological awareness focus. Staff members:

• Assess each child's phonological skills in order to present playful activities that build upon those skills.

• Offer daily, intentionally-planned activities to target phonological abilities during large and small group times as well as during teacher-initiated and child-initiated play.

• Incorporate songs, stories, and rhymes into every day.

• Model a playful approach to the sounds of language.

• Encourage experimentation with language through nonsense words and rhymes.

• Intentionally direct a child's listening to beginning, middle, or ending sounds of words.

• Introduce chants and finger plays to give children practice repeating familiar word patterns.

Supporting Phonological Awareness in the home and community...

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