Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in words. We know that a student's skill in phonemic awareness is a good predictor of later reading success or difficulty. This section contains information about how to develop students' phonemic awareness.
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- Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
- The Phive Phones of Reading
- The Alphabetic Principle
- Phonemic Awareness: An Introduction
- Phonemic Awareness Instruction
For parents
- Family Literacy Bags:
A School-to-Home Project - Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
For teachers
- Why Phonological Awareness Is Important for Reading and Spelling
- Teaching Metalinguistic Awareness and Reading Comprehension with Riddles
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A School-to-Home Project - Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
- English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
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Research
- Does Phoneme Awareness Training in Kindergarten Make a Difference in Early Word Recognition and Developmental Spelling?
- Effects of an Extensive Program for Stimulating Phonological Awareness in Preschool Children
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- Phonemic Awareness in Young Children
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