How comfortable are you in teaching phonemic awareness?
What is Phonemic Awareness?
First of all, Phonemic awareness is not phonics. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of speech sounds, or phonemes (the smallest parts of sound in a spoken word that make a difference in a word's meaning).
Why Phonemic Awareness Is Important
It improves students' word reading and comprehension.
It helps students learn to spell.
Phonemic Awareness Can Be Developed Through Activities
Identify and categorize sounds
Blend sounds to form words
Delete or add sounds to form new words
Substitute sounds to make new words
Phonemic Awareness Instruction Is Most Effective When--
Students are taught to manipulate phonemes by using alphabet letters.
Instruction focuses on only one or two rather than several types of phoneme manipulation.
Phonemic instruction is taught in Kindergarten or First Grade.
What are phonemic awareness skills? |
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Phonemic awareness skills are the skills needed to recognize that a spoken word consists of a sequence of individual sounds. |
Examples | |
Here are some examples of phonemic awareness skills: |
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What percentage of your students are struggling readers due to lack of phonemic awareness?