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 word that can change its meaning.

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What does it mean to blend sounds?

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Blending sounds means to combine individual sounds together to form a word.

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What is segmenting in phonemic awareness?

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Segmenting is the process of breaking a word down into its individual sounds.

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What is an example of a word with three phonemes?

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The word 'cat' has three phonemes: /k/, /æ/, /t/.

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How many phonemes are in the word 'dog'?

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The word 'dog' has three phonemes: /d/, /ɔ/, /g/.

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What is the purpose of phonemic awareness activities?

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Phonemic awareness activities help children develop the skills needed for reading and spelling.

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What is an example of a phonemic awareness activity?

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An example is asking children to clap for each sound they hear in a word.

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What does it mean to substitute sounds?

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Substituting sounds means to replace one sound in a word with another to create a new word.

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What is an example of sound substitution?

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Changing the /m/ in 'mat' to /h/ creates the new word 'hat'.

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