Sounding It Out: The Importance of Phonological Awareness

In this episode, we will explore the role that phonological awareness plays in early literacy and language development with literacy aficionado, David Yung, from Maunawili Elementary. We will learn about the parts that make up phonological awareness associated with later literacy achievement. Come be students with us again as David shares fun and easy tips and strategies that families and teachers alike can use to build these reading skills.

Your Hosts

• Dr. Esmeralda Carini 
• Erin D’ Amelio

Links for You!

• Here’s a graphic of Tolman’s hourglass figure David mentioned (and a video of Tolman herself explaining it) and Scarborough’s reading rope.
• David also mentioned David Kilpatrick's book, Equipped for Reading Success: A Comprehensive, Step-By-Step Program for Developing Phonemic Awareness and Fluent Word Recognition. 
• Reading Rockets provides a nice overview of phonological awareness and more tips and strategies for teachers and families to use with their students or children.
• For further reading, check out the International Literacy Association’s position statement and research brief on phonological awareness.
• The Hawaiʻi State Literacy Plan is designed in partnership with the Executive Office on Early Learning, the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i System and numerous community organizations. You can find it here.

Episode 4 Music

• Intro/Outro: “Together We Can” by hedkandi
• "Montauk Point" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 
• "Carpe Diem" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/