phonemic awareness

What’s Phonemic Awareness?

September 13, 2024

With more districts placing an increased emphasis on research-based reading instruction, phonemic awareness (PA) has taken on a new emphasis. In this post I’ll talk about PA and why it’s important to instruction. In our book, Artfully Teaching the Science…

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Alphabet Knowledge: Learning Letter Names and Sounds

June 25, 2023

Alphabet knowledge is exhibited when the individual can automatically recognize the name and common sound for all 26 letters of the alphabet, in upper and lower case. A corollary skill is the ability to write each letter, again, in upper…

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