Word awareness is the understanding that a phrase or sentence is made up of individual words. It’s also the ability to manipulate words in phrases and sentences which includes playing with compound words.  Word awareness is the most basic level of phonological awareness and seems incredibly ...
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The Alphabetic Principle is the concept that letters are used to represent individual phonemes in spoken words. We want our children to understand there is a systematic relationship between speech sounds and printed letters. The two important foundations of the alphabetic principle are Letter ...
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During the past few months, we have explored the development of both decoding sounds and language comprehension. As a review, decoding is the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words. Language comprehension is the ability to derive meaning from ...
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Once a child learns the majority of their letter sounds by decoding they also need to learn Language Comprehension, which is the ability to derive meaning from spoken words. It has nothing to do with the actual written letters on a page, but how a child’s oral language ...
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Before children are even introduced to the written language on paper they must become aware of the oral language they need to identify the written sounds. Oral language came well before written language in human history. Humans have been speaking for over 200,000 years, yet the earliest forms ...
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The children have been working on an array of activities in which they must be more aware of others’ needs. This is especially true during the holiday season. We have been sharing a variety of books that let the children understand the concept of those in need throughout the world and how they can ...
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Our classroom is busily buzzing with excitement and wonderful work. Many of the children are working on a variety of lessons in each area of the curriculum. You will observe children working on practical life activities such as food preparation for banana slicing, apple cutting, strawberry ...
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Welcome to a new and exciting year! For those who do not me, let me tell you a little about myself. I started working for Valley Forge Kinder House as a camp counselor when I was in tenth grade. During the summer months, I came out from Nebraska to visit my father in Pennsylvania and ...
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