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?

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Segmenting is breaking a word down into its individual sounds.

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What is an example of blending?

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Blending the sounds /c/, /a/, /t/ to say 'cat'.

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What is an example of segmenting?

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Segmenting the word 'dog' into the sounds /d/, /o/, /g/.

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What is a rhyme?

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A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, often at the end of the words.

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Can you give an example of a rhyme?

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'Cat' and 'hat' are examples of rhyming words.

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What is an onset in a word?

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An onset is the initial consonant sound of a syllable.

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What is a rime in a word?

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A rime is the vowel and any following consonants in a syllable.