Segmenting a word into its individual sounds is a key phonemic awareness skill.
Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness and focuses specifically on the manipulation of individual sounds (phonemes) in words.
Phonemic awareness is the understanding and manipulation of phonemes, the smallest units of sound that make up words.
Phonemic awareness helps children break down words into individual sounds, which is essential for decoding and reading new words.
Blending sounds to make a word is a phonemic awareness activity because it involves combining individual phonemes to form a word.
