Phonemic+Awareness

=What is Phonemic Awareness?=

====Phonemic Awareness falls under the umbrella of Phonological Awareness. It enables the listener to hear, identify and in some way manipulate phonemes, that smallest unit of sound which makes meaning. ====

Some phonemic awareness tasks would include:

 * 1) Isolating a phoneme - Tell me the first sound you hear in pot? /p/
 * 2) Identifying a phoneme - What sound is the same in the words: boy, boot and bake? /b/
 * 3) Phoneme substitution - Change the /k/ in cat to /h/ - what word? hat Phonemes can be substituted at any point in the word - initial, medial or final.
 * 4) Segmentation - Tell me the sounds in hop. /h/ /o/ /p/
 * 5) Blending - The sounds are /t/ /a/ /p/ - what word?
 * 6) Manipulation - Say bill without the /b/. -ill

