What are phonemes? What is phonemic awareness? Is it important? What is phonics? 1How can I help my child read these words? Is my child behind in reading? How do I know?
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"Research has identified phonemic awareness and letter knowledge as the best two predictors of how well a child will learn to read during the first two years of school (National Reading Panel, 2000). Children who develop strong phonemic awareness skills at an early age are more likely to become fluent readers and better spellers than children who do not."
Phonological Awareness: The ability to "recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words...Phonological awareness is especially important at the earliest stages of reading development — in pre-school, kindergarten, and first grade for typical readers...Phonological awareness refers to a global awareness of sounds in spoken words, as well as the ability to manipulate those sounds." Examples include rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmenting, syllable blending, and segmenting.
Phonemic Awareness: The ability to "notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. This includes blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds, and deleting and playing with the sounds in spoken words."
Phonics: The ability to apply the knowledge of letter sounds to decoding unfamiliar printed words.
Phonological awareness refers to oral language and phonics refers to written print.
Phonemic Awareness Activities:
Phonics Activities:
Resources:
https://buildingrti.utexas.org/videos/phonological-awareness-five-levels-of-phonological-awareness
https://homeschoolingwithdyslexia.com/teach-phonemic-awareness-kids-dyslexia/
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