Phonemic Awareness

Lets break it down

• Phenomes- the smallest parts of sound in spoken words that make a difference in how a word sounds compared to another word.

Phonemic awareness is the understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words.

Children can show us their awareness by...

• changing the phoneme in the word. EX: Hat to Pat
• isolating and saying the first or last sound of the word. EX: beginning of bat is b, the ending of cat is t

Another Example:

English has 41 phonemes

Phonemic awareness is actually a critical skill that is a precursor to reading letters