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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken words. It is important because it helps children to learn to spell, it improves children’s ability to read words, and it improves reading comprehension. The NRP found that phonemic awareness can be developed through a number of activities such as:
- Isolating individual sounds in a word;
- Recognizing the same sound in different words;
- Categorizing sounds, such as isolating a sound that is different or does not belong;
- Phoneme blending or listening to separately spoken phonemes and blending them together to form words;
- Phoneme segmentation or breaking words into its separate sounds;
- Phoneme deletion or recognizing the word that remains when a phoneme is removed form another word;
- Phoneme addition or making a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word and;
- Phoneme substitution or substituting one phoneme for another to make a new word.
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