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What is phonemic awareness?

• smallest unit of speech distinguishing one word (or word element) from another

• the ability to recognize, manipulate, and work with the individual sounds, or phonemes, within spoken words

• a mental process that helps children learn to read and spell words by connecting their pronunciation, spelling, and meaning

• I really am not sure

What is the best answer in understanding the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics?

• Phonemic awareness focuses on the sounds of spoken words, while phonics focuses on the relationship between letters and sounds in written language

• I stay confused when it comes to the differences between these two Science of Reading terms

• One has to do with print and the other is verbal

• This doesn't matter as long as your instruction includes both producing sounds and printing letters

Students need phonemic proficiency. What skills must be included?

• isolate, segment, and manipulate individual sounds

• isolate and manipulating individual sounds

• Blend and segmenting sounds

• Isolate, blend, segment, and manipulate individual sounds

What is often the missing piece of proficient reading?

• Decoding

• All these terms... my head is spinning!

• Encoding

• Phonemic awareness

Once teaching phonemic awareness, our ultimate goal is

• Complete all the lessons in our Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum

• Transfer what is known to print

• Move students to grade one

• Hope and pray our students remain in tier 1

Complete with the best answer. Heggerty was designed

• for tier 1 instruction

• for student fluency in reading

• so teachers wouldn't need to study and prep for instruction... everything is there and ready to teach

• support teachers

How long should a Heggerty Phonemic Lesson take after extended lesson practice with students?

• 5 - 7 Minutes

• 5 - 10 Minutes

• 12 - 15 Minutes

• 10 - 12 minutes / no longer than 15 minutes

Choose all true instructional practices of Heggerty.

• Explicitly systematic instruction

• Explicit teacher guidance

• Systematic lessons

• Evidence based