Phonemic Awareness READ 3383

the smallest meaningful unit of language

• Phoneme

• Phonemic awearness

• Phonological

is the initial consonant sound, blend, or digraph in a single syllable word or syllable.

• rime

• onset

• Syllable

has a short vowel ending in a consonant. Examples include hat

• Closed Syllable

• Open Syllabel

repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words

• rhyme

• alliteration

• rime

the ability to hear the individual sounds in a word, put the sounds together, and say the word that is made. For example, these sounds may be said to a student -/sss/, /aaa/, /nnn/, /d/ - and the student will say the word “sand”.

• Blending

• Segmenting

s a strategy that helps develop students' phonemic awareness, which is part of phonological awareness. Phoneme isolation involves having students identify specific phonemes in words (e.g., first, middle, last sound)

• Isolation

• Segmenting

identifying the individual sounds (phonemes) in a word. Students should practice segmenting initial sounds, onset-‐rime, and individual sounds in a word.

• segmenting

• Isolation

How many phonemes are in the word green?

• 5

• 4

• 3