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Table 9.1 Phonological awareness skills with
examples of adult elicitation procedures

Phonological

awareness skill

Adult elicitation procedures

Recognition of

rhyming words

“Do ‘dog’ and ‘shirt’ rhyme?”

Production of new

rhyming words

“What rhymes with ‘boat’?”

Segmentation of

words in sentences

“Clap for each word you hear in the

sentence ‘The apple is good’.”

Blending of syllables “I am going to say parts of a word. Tell

me what the word is. ‘Ham-ster’.”

Segmentation of syllables “Clap for each syllable you hear

in the word ‘kangaroo’.”

Identification of words

with the same beginning

sound (alliteration)

“Do these words begin with the

same sound or with different sounds?

Wonderful Wally Walrus.”

Deletion of syllables “Say the word ‘goodnight.’ Now

say it without saying ‘good’.”

Identification of

sounds in words

“What sound do you hear

at the end of ‘music’?”

Blending of sounds “Put these sounds together to

make a word. ‘C-u-p’.”

Segmentation of sounds “Tell me each sound you

hear in the word ‘sun’.”

Deletion of sounds “Say ‘chair’. Now say it without the ‘ch’.”

Addition of sounds “Say ‘sun’. Now say it with an ‘e’ at the end.”

Manipulation of sounds “Change the ‘s’ in ‘sand’ to ‘l’

and say the new word.”

Alphabet knowledge

The second aspect of metalinguistic awareness, alphabet know-
ledge, includes information about the letters of the alphabet
that comprises the written code. Literacy events with artifacts
provide the opportunity for children to gain knowledge about the
names and features of the letters of the alphabet (Giess 2014).