Phonemic+Awareness

= Phonemic Awareness =

What is Phonemic Awarenss?
A strong understanding of spoken language is a critical component of understanding written language. Students who have strong phonemic awareness have the ability to: Phonemic awareness instruction helps children understand, use and apply oral language. These skills are auditory and do not involve words in print. Without phonemic awareness, phonics will make little sense. Students will have difficulty connecting sounds to their written symbols or blending sounds to make a word.
 * hear the sounds in words
 * attend to the relationships between sounds
 * manipulate the sounds in words

Sequence of Phonological Awareness Skills
This skill is developed through training and practice and should be taught in a sequential manner:
 * word comparision
 * rhyming
 * sentence segmentation
 * syllable segmenting & blending
 * onset-rime blending & segmenting
 * blending & segmenting individual phonemes
 * phoneme deletion & manipulation

Online Resources:
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 * Phonemic Awareness Games and Activities:** A collection of engaging activities to use with emergent readers.

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 * 100 Juicy Words to Segment:** Practice segmenting with this list of 2, 3, 4 and 5 phoneme words.

[|FCRR Student Center Activity Seach Tool]
 * Flordia Center for Reading Research:** New and improved search engine gives you access to hundreds of engaging centers that you can make and use with your students.

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 * Student Websites:** Need ideas for student websites?

**Resource Books:**
__Phonemic Awareness: Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills__ by Jo Fitzpatrick __Getting Ready to Read: Independent Phonemic Awareness Centers for Emergent Readers__ by Jo Fitzpatrick __Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum__ by Marilyn Jager Adams