phonological awareness the ability to recognize & produce the sounds that are used in a language phonemic awareness the ability to focus on, hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes, or the individual sounds that make up spoken words syllable In phonology, a minimal unit of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or vowelconsonant combination rhyme repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often at the end of lines in poems and songs Sharing identical or at leas...