Phonological awareness skills begin early in life. Toddlers imitate sounds and tones. When prompted, toddlers will repeat the last word in familiar rhymes and even begin to suggest a missing rhyming word within a poem or song.
Experience Toddler provides 20 daily lessons each month. Within those lessons there are four categories of activities: Language & Literacy, Math & Reasoning, Music & Movement and Art & Drama. See the full continuum of skills the Experience Toddler Curriculum addresses.
Read about how Experience Curriculum incoporates phonological awareness skills through games, music, stories and movement across our curriculum programs.
Examples of Phonological Awareness Activies in Experience Toddler
Phonological awareness is demonstrated by toddlers in the following ways:
LLD 3 PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
Benchmark 1: Imitates sounds and tones. Repeats the last word in familiar rhymes when prompted.
Benchmark 2: Shows awareness of separate words in spoken language. Suggests a missing rhyming word within a poem or song.
Below are some examples of activities that encourage phonological awareness for toddlers:
Repeat the Beat encourages toddlers to imitate sounds and tones as well as repeat words in familiar rhymes.
Invite a young toddler to listen for sounds, then mimic throughout the read-aloud.
Older toddlers listen for sounds and repeats them throughout the read-aloud, incorporating movement by sitting for one sound and switching to standing for a different sound. Children hear the sounds and being to anticipate the next sound after hearing the story a few times.
During the Letter E Song, toddlers listen for the letter /e/ sound and mimic it.
A younger toddler dances freely around the letter E card and swing their arms like a big elephant trunk, listening to the letter /e/ sound.
An older toddler dances around the letter card with their peers. The toddler hears the /e/ sound and recogizes that the letter E makes the same sound.
Dripping Icicles is a song sung to the tune of “Twinkle Twinkle”.
A younger toddler can listen and move to the song. Encourage chidlren to mimic your actions. While hearing the poem they may participate as it’s recited.
An older toddler participates the same as the younger toddlers, but can be challenged to recall the next movement. They begin to antipate separate words like “dripping dripping” in the poem.
These are just a few examples of Literacy & Langauge and Phonological Awareness activities included in the Experience Toddler curriculum.
