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