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What is phonemic awareness? This is the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds within words. The sounds within words are called phonemes. Before children are able to read, they have to understand how sounds make up words. For example, the word "cat" has three sounds that make it up. If we were to change one sound like the /c/ to /b/ this would change the meaning of the word completely. Students can show us that they have phonemic awareness in many different ways including recognizing words that begin with the same sound, isolating and saying either the first or last sound of a word, combining the individual sounds to say a word, and breaking up a word into separate sounds. When in elementary school, our teachers did many activities to help us with phonemic awareness that we may or may not remember. I know looking back I remember that my teachers had sounded words out with me and would change sounds to have us create different words. In the article Put Reading ...

Phonemic awareness  It is about finding the individual sounds in a word. This helps students with early reading skills and for spelling. It is the most important factor in making a student a more advanced reader. Having phonemic awareness means that a student would be able to pull out a word, for example, "bug". They will realize that bug has three different sounds, also known as phonemes . Knowing these different sounds, the student then should be able to replace the b with an h, and be able to say the word, hug. Another way phonemes are used in a class is having the students stretch out the word while they say it. It lets the student emphasize each phoneme in the word. In elementary school, whenever a teacher is reading out loud to students, it is creating phonemic awareness. I remember my teacher used to do this when reading and she should have us predict what word was going to come next. While doing this, it wa...