Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in words

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​Definition:

Multiple Choice

What is phonemic awareness?

• The ability to hear the letters and sounds

• The ability to identify and manipulate sounds

• The ability to see the letters and sounds

• The ability to use phonological awareness with written symbols

• recognizing which words begin with the same sounds

• isolating and saying the first or last sound in a word

• blending the separate sounds in a word to say the word

• segmenting a word into separate sounds

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​How can I identify if my students have Phonemic Awareness?

Multiple Select

What are two ways you can tell your students have phonemic awareness? (Select two answers)

• Students can correctly identify letters

• Students can recognize words that begin with the same letter

• Students can decode words by themselves

• Students can segment words into individual sounds.