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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? Mmmmmɯoooooɮp.
  • 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)
 

 

Great Websites:

http://www.readinga-z.com/ print out  books, worksheets, poems, and other recourses
http://reading.uoregon.edu/pa/ Examples of Phonemic Awareness Skills
http://doe.sd.gov/octa/readingfirst/index.asp Content Standards
http://www.edhelper.com/ Wonderful themes and ideas

Dr. Seuss's  Birthday

Students working on sight words with flash cards and enjoying the rabbit's company.
The students love grandma she likes to listen to them read.

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