Evaluation of the literature on teaching phonetic awareness; Scope and sequence of phonetic awareness; Blending and segmenting methods of phonetic awareness instruction.SniderVicki A.School Psychology ReviewSnider, V. A. (1995). A primer on phonemic awareness: What it is, why it's important, and...
Why Is It Important? Print awareness helps a child understand that written words communicate just as spoken words do—that you can say the words that are written down and that every word you say can, likewise, be written. This is not something a child is born understanding. As children are...
As a child gets ample practice with phonemic awareness activities - such as segmenting, blending, substitutions - this eventually becomes a very automatic process allowing the child to develop into a super fluent AND accurate reader. As you see in the video of the 2 year old boy above, this ...