Happy #PhonologicalFriday! Today we will discuss the highest level of phonological awareness, phonemic awareness. What is Phonemic Awareness? Simply put, it is the ability for an individual to focus on and manipulate the phonemes in words. ...
** 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:...