Word Segmentation - This is the ability to recognize the distinct words in a sentence. A child who has developed word segmentation skills can tell how many words are in a sentence.
Recognition of Rhyming - This is the ability to recognize the common sounds in words such as the /og/ sound in frog, dog, and log.
Practice Rhyming Recognition with Nursery Rhymes
Production of Rhymes - This is the ability to produce rhyming words when asked. For example, when asked to give a word that rhymes with boy, a child might respond with toy.
Practice Rhyming Recognition with Nursery Rhymes
Syllable Recognition - This is the ability to recognize that words are made up of groups of sounds as in jum…ping.
Practice syllable recognition by having the child place his fingertips on his chin. When he is talking, and his chin moves down, that is a new syllable.
Syllable Deletion - This is the ability to recognize the part of a word that is left when a syllable is removed. For example, if the syllable buil is removed from the word building, then the syllable ding is left.
Syllable Substitution - This is the ability to recognize that new words can be made from word parts. For example, with the word sailboat, the word sail can be replaced with tug to make the word tugboat.
Sound Recognition or Phoneme Recognition - This is the ability to recognize the individual sounds in words. For example, in the word house, there are four sounds, h, o, w, s.
Sound Imitation - This is the ability to repeat sounds when given a spoken model. For example, when a teacher makes the ss sound, the child repeats the ss sound.
Sound Isolation - This is the ability to recognize an individual sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. For example, the child would recognize the b sound in the beginning of bat, the middle of able, or the end of web.
Sound Blending - This is the ability to recognize a word when given the sounds that make it up. For example, when given the sounds fff, rrr, ooo, ggg, the child would recognize the word frog. Sound Segmentation - This is the opposite of sound blending. This is the ability to identify the individual sounds in a word. Given the word run, the child would recognize the sounds rrr, uuu, nnn.
Sound Substitution - This is the ability to recognize that by changing individual sounds in words, new words can be made. For example, a the word cat can become sat by changing the initial sound from /k/ to /s/. The word rug can become rub when the /g/ sound is replaced with /b/.
