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Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in words. We know that a student's skill in phonemic awareness is a good predictor of later reading success or difficulty. This section contains information about how to develop students' phonemic awareness.
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Basics
- The Development of Phonological Skills
- Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
- The Phive Phones of Reading
- The Alphabetic Principle
- Phonemic Awareness: An Introduction
For parents
- Tips for Teaching Your Child About Phonemes
- Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
For teachers
- Why Phonological Awareness Is Important for Reading and Spelling
- Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom
- English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
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- Tips for Teaching Your Child About Phonemes
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- Playing with Word Sounds: Stretch and Shorten
- Beginning Readers: Look! I Can Read This!
- Emergent Readers: Look! That's My Letter!
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Research
- Human Voice Recognition Depends on Language Ability
- Effects of Preschool Curriculum Programs on School Readiness
- Effects of an Extensive Program for Stimulating Phonological Awareness in Preschool Children
- Does Phoneme Awareness Training in Kindergarten Make a Difference in Early Word Recognition and Developmental Spelling?
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- Phonemic Awareness in Young Children
- Road to the Code: A Phonological Awareness Program for Young Children
- Learning disAbilities / Learning Abilities (Episode 2): The Teaching
