Phonemic Awareness Alphabetic Understanding Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension


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Teaching Phonemic Awareness:
Critical Phonemic Awareness skills students should learn

  1. Sound Isolation
    Example: The first sound in sun is /ssss/.

  2. Blending
    Example: /sss/ - / uuu/ - /nnn/ is sun.

  3. Segmenting
    Example:The sounds in sun are /sss/ - /uuu/ - /nnn/.

 

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