the easier it is to match them to written words when they are introduced to phonics at school or nursery. Phonological awareness is an understanding of the different sounds that make up spoken ...

Other examples are ‘lack’ & ‘wack’, ‘seat’ & ‘beat’, ‘cry’ & ‘dry’ – as long as the phoneme changes the words meaning semantically or grammatically it is classed as a phoneme. A syllable is a unit of ...

Students will explore how English works in terms of its sounds (phonetics and phonology), words (morphology), sentence structures (syntax), meanings (semantics), and uses (discourse). Areas of ...

Phonological awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of sounds and recognising how they come together to form words. Children usually develop this skill at around 4 or 5 years ...