Language and play as abstract systems characterize child’s life in all segments of their existence. From an early age, a child learns a language to adapt to the environment and the world. The specifity of children’s learning is activity through which it achieves overall development. Play as the basis of children’s learning is also the basis of language learning. A language game, properly designed, hides the rules and encourages freedom in which the child disposes of his current linguistic possibilities, but also learning new ones. This work is based on research of the language – speech development of a child, because without language and speech, the concept of phonological awareness would not even exist. In the work, phonological awareness is viewed as a set of different skills necessary for mastering the more complex language skills of reading and writing. With developed literacy, there is a meaning of language and speech difficulties, as a consequence of underdeveloped phonological awareness. Therefore, the point of this work is to raise awareness of the importance of developing phonological awareness skills, awareness of rhyme, syllables and sounds, phonemes, as the predictors of language achievement.