Phonemic Awareness

(1) Phoneme isolation is the simplest part of phonemic awareness. Phoneme isolation concerns students identifying specific sounds in a word, such as the first, middle, and last sounds. 

(2) Phoneme blending is the next level of phonemic awareness. Phoneme blending involves having a student listen for the individual sounds in a word, put the sounds together, and say the word that the blended sounds created. 

(3) Phoneme segmentation is the third level of phonemic awareness. This level refers to breaking down words into individual sounds, known as phonemes.

(4) The 4th level of phonemic awareness is phoneme addition. This is when a student adds an individual sound to a word to create a new word.  

(5) Phoneme deletion is the 5th level of phonemic awareness. With phoneme deletion, a student would eliminate an individual sound from a word to create a new word. 

(6) The most difficult level of phonemic awareness is phoneme substitution. Students haveto remove a single sound and replace it with a new sound to create a new word.