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Phonemic Awareness

What is phonemic awareness? The ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds within a spoken word

New to phonemic awareness? Start with our step-by-step skill explainers: phoneme identification, segmentation and blending, and manipulation.

Looking for teaching materials? Explore all our phonemic awareness resources below.

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Phoneme Segmentation and Blending
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Quick Look: Segmenting with the Roller Coaster Strategy
Watch kindergarten teacher Fadia Olrich work with her students on blending sounds into words using the “roller coaster strategy.”
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Quick Look: Stretch and Shrink + Touch and Say
Watch Rossie King work with her students on blending sounds into words by using the strategies of “stretch and shrink” and “touch and look.”
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Finger Stretching with Monique Ealey
Watch Monique Ealey use her fingers to isolate and identify each sound in a word.
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Phoneme Segmentation and Blending
Learn how and when to explicitly teach syllable awareness, build fluency, and assess student learning.
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Phoneme Identification Skill Explainer
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Categorizing Phonemes with Stephanie Fincher
Watch how teacher Stephanie Fincher teaches her students to categorize phonemes in words.
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Recognizing Phonemes with Susan Robison
With the help of reading coach Susan Robison, students practice recognizing ending phonemes, or sounds, in words.
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Isolating Phonemes with Susan Robison
Using a roller coaster motion, Susan Robison helps her students isolate the ending sound, or phoneme, in words.
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Phoneme Segmentation and Blending
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Say It, Move It: Practice Mat
This free lesson plan for teachers is designed to help students build reading skills related to phoneme segmentation and blending.
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Segmenting Phonemes in Spoken Words Lesson Plan
This free lesson plan for teachers is designed to help students build reading skills related to phoneme segmentation and blending
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Blending Phonemes in Spoken Words Lesson Plan
The Touch and Say teaching strategy helps students learn how to blend phonemes in a spoken word.
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Student Practice Activity: Phoneme Detective
A fun printable activity to help students learn to segment and blend phonemes.
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Student Practice Activity: Count the Phonemes
This free printable resource for teachers is designed to help students build reading skills related to Phonemic Awareness.
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