Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness in the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words. Singing songs and making rhymes are great ways to encourage this skill. Songs, nursery rhymes and animal sounds are also great for developing phonological awareness.
Books
Phonological Awareness in the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words. Singing songs and making rhymes are great ways to encourage this skill. Songs, nursery rhymes and animal sounds are also great for developing phonological awareness.
Books
Moo, Baa, La La La Sandra Boynton
This board book is great for babies, it teaches several different animal sounds.
Clip Clop Nicola Smee
Themes: farm animals
Themes: farm animals
Rhyming Dust Bunnies Jan Thomas
Themes: friendship, funny
Themes: friendship, funny
What will Fat Cat Sit On? Jan Thomas
Themes: cats, animals
Themes: cats, animals
Puff the Magic Dragon Peter Yarrow
Themes: friendship, books you can sing
Themes: friendship, books you can sing
There's a Wocket in my Pocket! Dr. Seuss
Themes: animals
Even made up rhyming words promote phonological awareness.
Hand Hand Fingers Thumb Al Perkins
Themes: animals
This book can be read to a beat and has plenty of repetition and rhyming.
Themes: animals
This book can be read to a beat and has plenty of repetition and rhyming.
The Little Rabbit who Liked to Say Moo Jonathan Alen
Themes: animals, animal sounds
This book is about a little rabbit who likes to say the sounds of all of the other animals because he doesn't have a sound of his own.
Themes: animals, animal sounds
This book is about a little rabbit who likes to say the sounds of all of the other animals because he doesn't have a sound of his own.
Bark, George Jules Feiffer
Themes: animals, animal sounds
George is a dog who says just about anything but what a dog is supposed to say.
Themes: animals, animal sounds
George is a dog who says just about anything but what a dog is supposed to say.
Down By the Bay Raffi
Themes: animals, silly
This is a board book version of the silly rhyming song. Adults can encourage children to come up with their own rhymes to finish the line in the song: "Have you ever seen a _________ with a _________, down by the bay."
Songs and Finger Plays
Willoughby Wallaby Woo
This song is all about rhyming! Older children may be able to create rhymes for it. Sing the first half of the line and see if the children can come up with a rhyming word for the end, or make the song rhyme with their names. There is a version of this song on Raffi's CD Singable Songs for the Very Young.
Willoughby wallaby wee, an elephant sat on me
Willoughby wallaby woo, an elephant sat on you
Willoughby wallaby wary, an elephant sat on Mary
Willoughby wallaby wack, an elephant sat on Jack
Willoughby wallaby w______, an elephant sat on _______
This song is all about rhyming! Older children may be able to create rhymes for it. Sing the first half of the line and see if the children can come up with a rhyming word for the end, or make the song rhyme with their names. There is a version of this song on Raffi's CD Singable Songs for the Very Young.
Willoughby wallaby wee, an elephant sat on me
Willoughby wallaby woo, an elephant sat on you
Willoughby wallaby wary, an elephant sat on Mary
Willoughby wallaby wack, an elephant sat on Jack
Willoughby wallaby w______, an elephant sat on _______
Apples and Bananas
This song teaches children about the different vowel sounds, each refrain changes the vowel sound. Kids also love it because it sounds silly to say eeples instead of apples!
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like to ate, ate, ate ay-pples and banaynays (long a sound for all of the letter a's)
I like to eat, eat, eat ee-ples and baneenees (long e)
I like to ite, ite, ite i-ples and baninis (long i)
I like to ote, ote, ote o-pples and banonos (long o)
Open, Shut Them
This finger play can be used with the youngest children and babies, simply follow the actions of the rhyming song.
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap, clap, clap
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Put them in your lap, lap, lap
Creep them, creep them
Creep them, creep them
Right up to your chin, chin, chin
Open wide your little mouth
But do not let them in!
Open, shut them
Give a little clap, clap, clap
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Put them in your lap, lap, lap
Creep them, creep them
Creep them, creep them
Right up to your chin, chin, chin
Open wide your little mouth
But do not let them in!