Phonological and Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate sounds (phonemes). This skill provides a strong foundation for early reading success. As students become more proficient in hearing, identifying and manipulating sounds, they can successfully move onto segmenting and blending words. Therefore, a systematic and cohesive approach to teaching phonological awareness can build confident readers who are less likely to struggle with decoding and spelling skills. Students with strong a phonemic awareness are much more likely to be successful readers.

~ Annie Moffatt from http://themoffattgirls.com/what-is-phonemic-awareness-and-why/

Students who are struggling with their reading fluency and comprehension will be working on phonemic awareness. If your child is in grades K-3, we will be working on phonemic awareness to some degree. We will do this through games, word manipulation activities, and rhyming. We also utilize the Letterland Intervention strands as well. If your child's IEP has any reading goals related to sounding out words or identifying the sounds in a word, they will be working on phonemic awareness through the Recipe for Reading program. Both Letterland and Recipe for Reading follow the Orthon-Gillingham approach to reading.