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Phonemic awareness is the ability to HEAR the individual phonemes that make up a word. It does not involve the written word, ONLY the sounds that you HEAR in a word. | |
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It's really quite simple! Phonemes are the individual sounds that you hear in a word. Think of the word sat. In this word you hear the sound that the s makes, the sound that the a makes, and the sound that the t makes. Say it and stretch it: sssssaaaaattttt. You can break this word into each individual phoneme (sound): /s/ /a/ /t/. The word sat has 3 phonemes! Plain and simple, phonemes are speech sounds, not letters! |
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Why is this so
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Research shows that teaching phonemic awareness to young children is an important part of learning to read and a strong predictor of reading success. It is imperative that children understand that words are made up of speech sounds. This helps them in spelling and decoding (sounding out) unknown words. | |
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This game provides practice with auditory discrimination of medial vowels. |
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Phonemic Awareness Activities
Simple activities that can be done to develop phonemic awareness and phonics. |
Practice with Syllables This interactive game gives the child practice clapping out syllables. Immediate feedback when an answer is given. |
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Games that Build Phonemic Awareness Word play with sounds is a great way to build phonemic awareness. Here are some simple ideas that can be done in the car, at the dinner table, or in the bathtub. |
Clifford's Sound Match Game Clifford, the big red dog, is a favorite of children. Play this game of listening to the sound and matching to a picture. |
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Phonemic Awareness What Does It Mean?
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