Phonemic Awareness

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Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes in spoken words. Before children learn to read, they should become aware of sounds. They should understand speech from sounds, or phonemes (the smallest part of sound in a spoken word). Phonemic Awareness improves students' reading comprehension and allows young readers to build another important element of reading. There are three main elements of phonemic awareness: syllables, rhymes , and beginning sounds.

Teaching Effective Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness starts with identifying phonemes and sounds. Children are typically introduced to their alphabets in the early preschool years. Oral activities starts in Kindergarten with rhyming,

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