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Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness refers to the ability of a student to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds in words. Students need to develop abilities in the area of phonemic awareness in order to have a foundation for future reading proficiency.
Phonemic Awareness Skills

Rhyming

Read nursery rhymes and poems with your child.

Alliteration

(words beginning with the same sound)

Blending two syllable words.

 

Identifying beginning, middle and ending sounds in words

 

Counting the number of sounds in a word.

 

Segmenting the individual sounds in a word.

 

 

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