Reading for Every Child: Phonemic Awareness (Grades K-1)

EBOOK: Reading for Every Child: Phonemic Awareness (Grades K-1)

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words. It is the ability to examine language independent of meaning. Thus, phonemic awareness tasks demand that children attend to spoken language, not tasks that simply ask students to name letters or tell which letters make which sounds. Children who are phonemically aware would be able to hear the word cat, for example, and identify three phonemes (sounds) /k/ /a/ /t/ , hear each individual phoneme /m/ /a/ /n/ , for example, and blend these together to form a word man; hear the word cart, for example, and be able to delete the final sound /t/ and tell you the word is car.

Phonemic awareness is particularly important in early reading instruction. It is a primary indicator of early reading and spelling success. Phonemic awareness is a prerequisite to learning to read in an alphabetic sound system, such as English. Teaching phonemic awareness helps children understand this alphabetic principle—that the written word is composed of letters that correspond to phonemes (sounds). Thus, before children learn to read print, they must first have an understanding of phonemic awareness rather than their conceiving of each word as a single indivisible sound stream.

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