Levels of Phonological Awareness | Phoneme Level | Science of Reading

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Quick question...When looking at the Levels of Phonological Awareness and thinking about connecting that to text....when would you suggest moving from simply blending and segmenting onset-rime orally to recognizing onset-rime in words in text or doing activities that manipulate onset-rime with physical letters in play?

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I don't know that there is a hard consensus on this. We know that technically, phonological and phonemic awareness should initially be done "in the dark"--meaning that there is no print attached. However, we also know that the National Reading Panel found that instruction that teaches phoneme manipulation with letters helps normally developing readers and at-risk readers acquire PA better than PA instruction without letters. However, the appropriate time to begin incorporating letters into PA instruction is more of a grey area. According to Snow, Burns, and Griffin (1998), phonemic awareness instruction and alphabet instruction should remain separate until a clear trajectory toward mastery of both is established. From there, incorporating letters can accelerate progress.