Did you know…a student's phonic awareness skill is the BEST predictor of reading readiness and future reading development?

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So what is phonemic awareness?

Phonemic awareness is…the ability to hear, differentiate and flexibly manipulate units of sound in spoken language. That means skills like rhyming, separating sounds, blending sounds, substituting sounds, deleting sounds or adding sounds. I know that sounds a lot like what you teach with phonics, right?! It's not the same thing and here's why...

Phonemic awareness can [and should] be taught without any paper, pencils or letters because it's all about auditory skills. You can find out more in this week's episode.

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In this episode, find out:

• The difference between phonemic awareness and phonics.
• What the essential phonemic awareness skills are.
• How to begin teaching phonemic awareness.
• The clues that tell us a student in lacking...