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Research-Based Instruction in Reading

Student Achievement and School Accountability Conference
October 2002

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Two Important Phonemic Awareness Activities

• Phoneme blending. Children listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes and then combine the phonemes to form a word. /d/ /o/ /g/ is dog. (This is the process used in decoding words.)
• Phoneme segmentation. Children break a spoken word into its separate phonemes. There are four sounds in truck: /t/ /r/ /u/ /k/. (This is the process used in spelling words phonetically: "invented spelling.)