Sentences with phrase «like phonological awareness»

This can be done even before a child can read, testing things like phonological awareness, or sound awareness, which are good predictors of whether a child will have reading problems, says John D. E. Gabrieli, director of MIT's Integrated Learning Initiative, who will focus on making the screening tool.

Try substituting your child's name in simple nursery rhymes to build pre-reading skills like phonological awareness.

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Phonological awareness is critical for learning to read in alphabetic languages like English.

In 2000, a national panel of experts concluded that reading teachers need explicit knowledge of language features that most people know only implicitly: syntax, morphology (how the roots of words can combine with one another or with prefixes or suffixes) and phonological awareness (the ability to hear parts of spoken language like syllables and individual speech sounds).