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Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words.
- Phonemic awareness is not phonics.
- Phonemic awareness is auditory and does not involve words in print
Examples of Phonemic Awareness Skills
- Blending: What word am I trying to say? MmmmmÉooooooÉ.p.
- Segmentation (first sound isolation): What is the first sound in mop?
- Segmentation (last sound isolation): What is the last sound in mop?
- Segmentation (complete): What are all the sounds you hear in mop?
"One of the most compelling and well-established findings in the research
on beginning reading is the important relationship between phonemic awareness and
reading acquisition." (Kame'enui, et. al., 1997; see
References)
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