Strategies for Phonemic Awareness




  • Surround children with auditory stimulation to sounds.  Read stories to children, listen to songs, and talk to children.  The more students hear the sounds, the easier identifying sounds becomes.


  • Phoneme isolation:

To help children identify the sounds at the beginning or the end of the words.

  Ask these types of questions:


What sound do you hear at the beginning of (say a word) ?

What sound do you hear at the end of (say a word) ?


  • Phoneme identity:

Children identify the sound when given a list of words. 

What sounds do these words have in common (say a list of words with the same beginning or ending sounds)?

  • Phoneme categorization:

Students learn to identify a sound that is different in a group of words.

What sound does not belong to this group of words (say a group of words where one has a different beginning or ending sound)?


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