by Lynn Givens | Apr 23, 2020 | Reading Science
** A guest post by Lynn Givens ** Reading is an astonishingly complex cognitive process. While we often think of reading as one singular act, our brains are actually engaging in a number of tasks simultaneously when we read. There are five components in the process...
by Lynn Givens | Apr 19, 2019 | Phonemic Awareness, Reading Science, Skill Development
** A guest post by Lynn Givens ** A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in spoken language. There are about 25 consonant phonemes and about 18 vowel phonemes, or sounds. Seven phonemes such as /ch/ and /sh/ are represented by two letters. Phonemic Awareness is:...
