Teaching Phonemic Awareness- 3 Great Resources for Teachers and Parents
Phonemic awareness is part of the general concept of what is known as phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize and segment words into their constituent individual sounds (phonemes) making them. A phoneme in linguistics is the smallest meaningful sound unit. For instance, the word ‘hat’ is composed of three different phonemes: /h/, /æ/, and /t/. Phonemic awareness is an important skill kids get to learn at an early age. It helps them improve their spelling and reading skills. ‘Children who can not distinguish and manipulate the sounds within spoken words have difficulty recognizing and learning the necessary print=sound relationship that is critical to proficient reading and spelling success.’ In today’s post we are sharing with you three interesting resources to help you with the teaching of phonemic awareness: 1- Reading Rockets Reading Rockets offers some excellent tools and activities for teaching kids both phonological and phonemic awareness. Rea...