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Phonemic Awareness: A Prerequisite for Reading Success What is phonemic awareness and why do young readers need to develop it? It is important to develop phonemic awareness in emergent readers because it is an oral language skill that includes a number of discrete skills: rhyming isolating beginning, middle, and ending sounds segmenting and blending phonemes…
Phonemic Awareness is the awareness of the smallest sounds in speech. Like Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness is an auditory skill. Phonemes refer to the smallest unit of sound within a word. For instance, “cat” has three phonemes: /k/ /a/ /t/. It is important to note that phonemes relate to the number of sounds, not letters,…
For many beginning and struggling readers who need to strengthen phonological awareness, instructional scaffolds are a necessity. In our previous post, we answered a lot of questions about instructional scaffolds. In this post, we delve more deeply into specific scaffolds used to strengthen phonological awareness. What is Phonological Awareness? Phonological Awareness is an auditory skill….
The best way to prevent the summer reading slide is to keep kids reading during the summer. We wrote a previous blog post on how to motivate kids to read during the summer and we are back with more tried-and-true suggestions. DISCLAIMER: As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to…
Processing speed refers to the amount of time required for the brain to absorb, interpret, and respond to visual and/or auditory information. What does slow processing look like at different ages? Here are a few examples of what slow processing can look like at various ages. Preschool – the student may stare off into space…
The first step in how to strengthen decoding skills is to connect phonemic awareness to print. In our previous post we discussed strengthening phonological awareness by incorporating targeted scaffolds (temporary assists). In that post, we focused on the oral aspect of phonemic awareness. However, it’s important to emphasize that research supports bridging the gap between…