First, read the essential text below.
 
Essential 4: Activities that build phonological awareness

Teachers promote phonological awareness development particularly phonemic awareness development, through
explicit explanation, demonstration, play with sounds in words, and engaged study of words.

 
Next, read each bullet in the table and select the column that fits your understanding and implementation of the instructional practice. If you have specific examples of how you implement a bullet in your classroom, you'll be able to share those in the second section. Finally, indicate which bullets you implement in your classroom every day.