Phonemic+Awareness

Phonemic Awareness is an early building block of literacy. Not to be confused with phonics, phonemic awareness is the precursor to phonics. Children develop phonemic awareness by singing, repeating rhymes and poems that carry a cadence, categorize words by their initial or final sounds (cheetah, chimp, chips, chocolate) with the letter names not being mentioned. Children also learn to listen for syllabication, clapping out the syllables in their names or in short sentences. In our program, children learn to manipulate phonemes (sounds) without reading. They learn to change words by changing the phonemes and are able to discriminate where in the word the change occured with specific language based on Literacy How.