Phonics for Teachers

Phonemic Awareness deals with hearing and not seeing.

• True

• False

Phonemic Awareness is a category within phonological awareness and is dealing with sounds that make up individual words.

• True

• False

The smallest unit of sound

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonics

• Phoneme

• Grapheme

Letter(s) that represent phonemes (sound)

• Grapheme

• Phonics

• Phoneme Segmentation

• Blends

Two letters that make one phoneme (sound)

• Triagraph

• Blends

• Phonemic Awareness

• Diagraphs

A child's ability to recognize the separate sound units of words

• Phoneme

• Phonological Awareness

• Phoneme Segmentation

• Phonics

Segment the word splash

• spl-a-sh

• s-p-l-a-sh

• slp-ash

• sp-l-a-sh

The relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language

• Phonics

• Phonemes

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonological Awareness