Phonics vs. Phonemic Awareness vs. Phonological Awareness: What's the Difference? 

What would understanding the concept of silent letters be classified under?

Glad to hear the video was helpful Hailee! So for the silent e, first with phonemic awareness you'd want students to hear that certain words have a short vowel vs. a long vowel. For instance, if you said the word "hop" and students segment it, they'd hear the short vowel o. In the word "hope" they would segment and hear the long o sound. Then for the phonics portion, you could point out WHY hop is pronounced "hop" and why hope is pronounced "hope." The silent e at the end is what makes the short o change into a long o. Hope this explanation helps!

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Systematic just means that there are systems in place to follow. One of those systems is using a scope and sequence which lays out exact skills/goals for students to follow over the course of time.

Hi there! The sound itself /t/ is a phoneme. The grapheme that makes that sound is the letter "t." Here's a blog that may help - learningattheprimarypond.com/blog/the-top-5-phonics-definitions-all-teachers-should-know/

Can you expand a bit on what you're referring to so I can help answer your question?

There's this Instagram filter game called "guess the gibberish". I wanted to use that in my class activity and I want to know what language skill it develops. Phonics of phonological awareness?

Hey! I actually have a blog post coming out in a couple weeks specifically talking about how parents can help their children, so stay tuned :) It sounds like so many things are going well for her! Have her work on fluency (rereading familiar texts).

Hey there! First of all, I want to commend the work you are doing, amazing! He's lucky to have someone like you in his corner :) I think that even at his age, you should go through a few different high frequency words a week, but always talk about whether or not the sounds "make sense" with each word. For instance, in the word "that" - the "th" makes a digraph, the "a" is the short a sound, and the "t" makes the /t/ sound. All of that is totally decodable! With a word like "one" or "from" though - there are sounds in those words that just don't match up to what we think it would be if we were only trying to decode it. (i.e. the "o" in "from" makes a short "u" sound instead of an "o" sound for some odd reason!) Combining this quick practice with some discussion will hopefully make it less about short term memorization and instead make it stick a bit more in the long run!

Sure! Phonemes are the individual sounds in the word. So orally, think about how you'd break apart the word "excited" into its sounds. This one is a bit tricky because the "x" and the "c" kind of blend together into one sound, and you don't really hear the "c." So, I'd say the sounds are /e/ /x/ /ī/ /t/ //ĭ/ /d/

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Can you tell me a bit more about what you're looking for?

Phonics is "a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system" and phonetics is "the study and classification of speech sounds."

Phonics is for kids. Phonetics is for kids experts.

It can be a lot to learn!! In simpler terms, phonological awareness includes all things that can be done by sound/orally. No print/letters is involved. So things such as rhyming, hearing a word and then saying the sounds back, breaking up a word into syllables, etc. Phonics brings in actual letters so that kids are associating letters/sounds together. So with phonics, students are actually reading/writing words. Hope this helps!

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Yes, essentially! Phonemics usually refers to the study of phonemes.

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Bummer! Sorry you weren't able to get more out of the video!

Yes! The terms can definitely be confusing! Hoping the video provided some clarity.

I want to say as well, this impacts hearing speech, even as an adult. You will just not even hear the sounds and your Brian makes up something to fill the gap. So I always have to repeat, in my own words, what I think someone means and ask if that’s what they mean. I can’t trust what I just heard lol, not all dyslexics have this I’m severely dyslexic lol

Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Here's a blog I wrote that explains how phonological awareness relates to phonics - learningattheprimarypond.com/blog/how-your-phonological-awareness-instruction-should-connect-to-your-phonics-instruction/

Phonetic relates more to the pronunciation of sounds, but it can also involve letters. For instance, there are two different ways to pronounce /th/ - the voiced sound in "the" and the unvoiced sound in "thief." Phonics is the overall sound-symbol relationship in words.

Sandy, just want to clarify what you're asking so I can answer!