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Phonemic Awareness: Recognizing and using individual sounds to create words.
One of the most important foundations of reading success is phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes-in spoken words. It is the understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words. Phonemes are the smallest unit of spoken language... (continue reading from New Jersey's Reading First Program Grant Application).

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IN THE CLASSROOM (Audio and Video! Songs from PBS)

Classroom practices that support the acquisition of phonemic awareness, from the Madison Metropolitan School District, WI.
 

ASSESSMENT IDEAS

Phonemic Awareness Assessment Tools (online): kindergarten and grade one. Specific exercises and some videos.
Assessment Tools and Techniques, from Early Literacy: A Resource for Teachers, Saskatchewan, Canada. An overview of the procedure, frequency and instructional implications.

FOR THE PARENT

National Association for the Education of Young Children- NAEYC. Promoting excellence in early childhood education.