Phonemic Awareness

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Phonemic awareness is the only aspect of reading that is essential for children to develop before they can begin learning to read. Based in oral language, phonemic awareness serves as not only the foundation for reading it is also the strongest indicator of a child’s potential for learning to read. More information here.

So what skills are involved? Here is a hierarchy of phonemic awareness skills and how the relate to other learning areas.