PHONEMIC AWARENESS

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

1. Phoneme Isolation

   • involves identifying each of the individual sounds in a word.
   • involves noting the position of where those sounds appear in a word.
   • Example: The word ‘bat’, you can ask a child where the /t/ sound is located, at the start, middle, or at the end of the word.

2. Phoneme Blending

   • the ability to hear the individual sounds in a word, put the sounds together, and say the word that is made.
     • essential in developing reading skills.
       • For example, these sounds may be said to a learner /m/, /a/, /n/, and the learner will say the word ‘man’.