Using phonemic awareness is one of the best ways to predict a student’s ability to read fluently. Phonemic awareness is the ability to clearly hear and differentiate speech sounds and is a critical key to our understanding of what we read. Therefore, in an elementary classroom, a phonemic awareness program is an important tool to help students reach their full learning potential. Phonemic awareness is a cognitive skill consisting of three distinct levels:

Phonemic Awareness

Identifying Phonemes:

Phonemes are not letters, or groups of letters. They are parts of words, but they are not sounds. The sounds that make up words are called ‘phones’. ‘Phoneme’ is the underlying category of which the phones are members. For example, the following words contain three phonemes each: cup and pup, bad and bed, and fan and fad. These examples illustrate how a single phoneme, whether in the initial, medial, or final position of a spoken word, can change the meaning. Students learn to master the skill of identifying phonemes when they engage in phonemic awareness activities.


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