Phonemic Awareness

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What is phonemic awareness?

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

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What is the medial sound in a word?

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The medial sound is the sound that occurs in the middle of a word.

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Provide an example of a word with the medial sound 'u'.

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The word 'fun' has the medial sound 'u'.

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Provide an example of a word with the medial sound 'a'.

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The word 'cat' has the medial sound 'a'.

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What is the final sound in a word?

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The final sound is the sound that occurs at the end of a word.

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Provide an example of a word with the final sound 't'.

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The word 'cat' has the final sound 't'.

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Provide an example of a word with the final sound 'n'.

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The word 'can' has the final sound 'n'.

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Provide an example of a word with the final sound 'b'.

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The word 'cab' has the final sound 'b'.

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What is the initial sound in a word?

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The initial sound is the sound that occurs at the beginning of a word.