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[ann foster]

Hi Everyone,
I am a learning support teacher who is very interested in early childhood education. As you can well imagine, I deal every day with children who can not read. I am a firm believer in the research findings that children have difficulty reading because they are not exposed to phonological awareness experiences before beginning the more formal reading activities. Phonological Awareness is all about sounds; segmenting,blending,deleting and changing the the order of sound sequences. Following this is the knowledge that that spoken words are made up of individual sounds that are placed together to make a word. listening to sounds,rhyme,syllabification,word awareness and sentence awareness are all part of Phonological Awareness.

[Theodore]

In other words, read and talk to your kids.

[Lily]

[ann foster]

[Lily]