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Phonemic Awareness

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Summary

• Phoneme awareness is necessary, but not sufficient.

• Phoneme awareness can be directly taught.

• Phoneme awareness does not require extensive teaching time.

• Phoneme awareness should be assessed in kindergarten.

• Focus majority of instruction on blending and segmenting sounds.