Phonemes

Phonemic Awareness

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify, hear, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words. Manipulating the sounds in words includes blending, stretching, or otherwise changing words.

Multiple Choice

Look at the photo. What is the missing letter?

_ r y

• t

• c

• f

• k

What is Phonemic Awareness?

​Phonemic awareness

Children can show us they have phonemic awareness by isolating/saying the first or last sound in a word.

Multiple Choice

What is the first sound in "ship"?

• s

• h

• i

• sh