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What is Phonemic Awareness?
What is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemes are individual sounds in words.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, blend, and manipulate individual phonemes in words.
Examples of Phonemic Awareness
Examples of Phonemic Awareness
The graphic on the left gives examples of some phonemic awareness skills.
Phonemic Awareness Glossary:
Phonemic Awareness Glossary:
Isolate Sounds: to separate/identify sounds in a spoken word into sections (beginning sound, middle sound, end sound).
Phoneme: individual sound in a word. There are 44 phonemes in English.
Blending: putting together individual sounds to say the word outloud.
Segmenting: break down a word into its individual sounds.
Onset: Only used for single-syllable words. Onset is the beginning sound/initial consonants before the vowel. Examples: [c]at. or [sp]eech.
Rime: Only used for single-syllable words. Rime is the vowel and the remaining string of letters after the vowel. Examples: c[at] or sp[eech].
Family Resources/Activities
Family Resources/Activities
Note: Click the boxes of your child's working level.
Note: Click the boxes of your child's working level.
Example: Your child may be in 4th grade, but their phonemic awareness score may reflect a need to review second grade skills. You would click "2nd grade."
Example: Your child may be in 4th grade, but their phonemic awareness score may reflect a need to review second grade skills. You would click "2nd grade."
Other Resources/Links
Other Resources/Links
Here are some websites with fun games/activities to reinforce phonemic awareness.
Reading Bear
Heggerty Youtube Channel
Heggerty Parent Newsletters and At Home Resources
Virtual Elkonin (Sound) Boxes
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