Phonemic Awareness

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What is phonemic awareness?

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

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What is a phoneme?

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

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What is the medial sound in the word 'cat'?

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The medial sound in 'cat' is 'a'.

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What is the initial sound in the word 'dog'?

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The initial sound in 'dog' is 'd'.

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What is the final sound in the word 'run'?

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The final sound in 'run' is 'n'.

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How many phonemes are in the word 'stop'?

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The word 'stop' has four phonemes: /s/, /t/, /o/, /p/.

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What is the difference between initial, medial, and final sounds?

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Initial sounds occur at the beginning of a word, medial sounds are in the middle, and final sounds are at the end.

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Give an example of a word with a medial sound 'e'.

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An example of a word with a medial sound 'e' is 'bed'.

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What is blending in phonemic awareness?

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Blending is the ability to combine individual sounds to form a word.

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What is segmenting in phonemic awareness?

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Segmenting is the ability to break a word down into its individual sounds.