Phonemic Awareness In Words

Phonemic awareness is a very important skill essential so one can learn to read. Reading as defined by dictionary.com as to look at carefully to understand the meaning of something written or printed; for example to read a book or to read music. Reading consist of two major cognitive abilities; we first have to understand what it is we are reading and secondly interpret the information from the series of letters that is represented. As you interpret it allows you to maintain the understanding and definitions of words that we know and alter it through the learning of language that is spoken. In order for us to understand language through printed words we have to first combine comprehension and decoding.
The ability to notice, think about and work with individual sounds in spoken words is known as phonemic awareness. It is essential that children need to become aware of how the sounds in words work before they can learn to read print. They must first understand that each word is made up of sounds or phonemes. The smallest part of sounds …show more content…
It focuses on being able to identify and manipulate the individual sounds in words. As learners hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds or phonemes in spoken words it helps to improve word reading, reading comprehension and it helps them to learn to spell. A variety of activities can be used to develop phonemic awareness that I would implement when teaching my learners such as being able to identify and categorize phonemes, blend them to form words, segment words into phonemes, delete or add phonemes to form new words, and also to be able to substitute phonemes to make new words. Phonemic awareness education is most effective when children are taught to manipulate phonemes by using the letters of the alphabet and when lessons focuses on only one or two rather than several types of phoneme