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Gerald Fitzhugh, II, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools

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Writing Development

Tips for Reading Readiness Phonemic awareness skills by age* (by Leslie Mata on Oct 15, 2020)
  • 3 yrs    Nursery rhymes; hearing alliteration and identifying words that rhyme
  • 4 yrs    Identifying and producing rhyming words; clapping syllables; segmenting sentences into words/counting the number of words in a sentence
  • 5 yrs    Identifying words that do not rhyme within a group; blend together onsets and rimes followed by phoneme blending. Focus on blending at this level.
  • 6 yrs    Blending sounds together to create words; segmenting sounds (beginning/middle/end) to identify parts of words (phoneme isolation)
  • 6–7 yrs    Counting sounds in words; identifying individual sounds in a word (phoneme segmentation); begin to spell phonetically
  • 7–8 yrs    Manipulating sounds within words (adding, deleting, and substituting beginning consonant sounds) to form new words
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