Xiaoyu Wang

TE842
Fall 2017
First Concept map: English Phonological awareness
Literacy: ability to read and write

Definition
Phonological awareness: An indicator of The understanding that spoken language is
future reading success composed of smaller units such as phrases,
words, syllables, and phonemes (sounds).

Include

Phonemic
awareness Alphabetic principle
Definition

Spoken language and words are made up of The use of letters and combinations of letters to
individual sounds represent speech sound

Include
First
Orthography, or phoneme–grapheme
correspondence, sounds and spellings (i.e.,
Words awareness: awareness of the syllables
phonics) /b/ - b
within words

Made of

Onsets: all the sounds in the Second

syllable
before the vowel
Rimes: the vowel and everything
following it
Rhyming: the words have the same last
sound. Rock/dock
Ready for

Graphemes
(Symbol or letter)

Include

Sound manipulation:
Eg: Phoneme identity,
ability to separate, blend
blending, addition,
and delete phonemes.
deletion substitution
 Second Concept map: phonological awareness in Chinese.

Literacy: ability to read and write

Include
Chinese sound system: Chinese orthography: graphemic
pinyin Ready for decoding or characters recognition
First

Pinyin principle: difficult to Include

learn since the
difference between alphabetic and pinyin
system Single word

Second

Initial pinyin and final pinyin: Radicals

similar with consonant and vowels
in English

Third
Manipulation of pinyin: blending, deleting, and
addition. Pairs and phrases

Semantic principle
and grammar

Reference
Reutzel, D.R. & Cooter, R.B. (2015). Strategies for reading assessment
and instruction in an era of Common Core standards: Helping every child
succeed. (5th edition). Boston: Pearson. ISBN: 978-0133783643 (p.115-
141)