Phonemic awareness

Question 1

What is phonemic awareness?

Answer 1

Turn into and manipulate the individual sound units/phonemes of words.

Phonemic awareness is important for understanding the alphabetic principal - the idea that sounds are represented by letters.

Question 2

What are the levels of phonemic awareness

Answer 2

Phonemic isolation
Phoneme identity
Phoneme categories
Phoneme blending
Phoneme segmenting
Phoneme substitution

Question 3

Phonemic Awareness: Phonemic isolation

Answer 3

Identify one phoneme in a word

/c/ or /u/ or /p/

Order of difficulty:
Initial
Final
Medial

Question 4

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme identity

Answer 4

Listen to identify the phoneme that is common to 2 words

Question 5

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme categories

Answer 5

Listen to identify the phoneme that is different in 2 words

Question 6

Phonemic Awareness: Orally blending sounds

Answer 6

Listen to separately spoken phonemes and the blend them to pronounce the word ( /s/…/u/…/n/ = sun )

Question 7

Phonemic Awareness: Orally segmenting sounds

Answer 7

Break a word into separate phonemes boat = /b/… /oa/…/t/

Question 8

Phonemic Awareness: Manipulating sounds

Answer 8

Change one phoneme to another phoneme to make a new word.

Sound addition / sound deletion / sound substitution

Question 9

Explain Alliteration

Answer 9

The ability to produce/identify words that begin with the same initial sounds (alliteration).

Alliteration occurs when two or more words begin with the same sound.

Alligators ate all apples.

Question 10

Phonemic awareness is an important skill in learning to read and write

Answer 10

Blend words when decoding (reading works)

Segment words when encoding (writing words)

Question 11

What is a phoneme

Answer 11

Smallest sound unit in a word; consonant and vowel (short/long)