Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Strategies for Assessing and Teaching
Print basics
100

A basic unit of speech.

What is a phoneme?

100

The ability to break sentences into words, words into syllables and syllables into phonemes

What is segmenting?

100

understanding  that words convey thoughts, words are made of letters and spaces appear between words.

What is Print awareness?

200

describes the ability to understand that oral language is made up of smaller sounds such as words and syllables.

What is phonological awareness?

200

the ability to sequence sounds together to form words.

What is blending?

200

holding a book upright, being able to identify the cover and back, identifying the title, beginning,middle and end of a book.

What are book handling skills.

300

contributes  greatly to a student's ability to read, write and comprehend.

What is phonological and phonemic awareness?

300

when a sound is omitted, the rest of the word and/or sounds remain.

What is deletion?

400

Deals only with the phoneme, the most basic speech sound.

What is phonemic awareness?

400

changing a sound or combination of sounds in a word to create a new word.

What is substitution?

500

the backbone of reading skills.

what are reading skills?

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