Understanding that words are made up of letters representing sounds that can be used to pronounce or decode them.

Pre-K,K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 14 The awareness of the sounds (phonemes) that make up spoken words. Such awareness does not appear when young children learn to talk; the ability is not necessary for speaking and understanding spoken language. Phonemic awareness is a necessary step for learning to read. In alphabetic languages, letters and letter clusters represent phonemes, and in order to learn the correspondences between letters and sounds, one must understand that words are made up of phonemes.

An understanding that speech is composed of a series of written sounds.

an early interest in and growing facility with the sounds of language. This facility includes the ability to detect rhymes, segment and blend sounds in spoken words, and to manipulate sounds in words through phoneme addition and/or deletion.

Ability to break individual words into their component sounds

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the sounds of spoken language.

a way of teaching reading and spelling that stresses symbol sound relationships; the ability to associate letters and letter combinations with sound and blendings then into syllables and words

The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. An example of how beginning readers show us they have phonemic awareness is combining or blending the separate sounds of a word to say the word (/c/ /a/ /t/ – cat.)

The conscious awareness that words are composed of separate sounds and the ability to identify and manipulate those sounds. As described in the National Research Council's report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children (pg.53), "A child with phonemic awareness is able to discern that camp and soap end with the same sound, that blood and brown begin with the same sound or, more advanced still, that removing the // from smell leaves sell." ( Hall & Moats, 1999)

The ability to notice, think about and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. This is an oral skill.

The knowledge that spoken words are made up of a sequence of somewhat separable sounds or phonemes

The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken language and the understanding that spoken words and syllables are made up of speech sounds (Yopp, 1992). Phonemic awareness is an auditory skill and does not involve print.

the knowledge that words are made up of individual sound units called phonemes. For example, the word ‘map' is made up of three sounds /m/ /a/ /p/ (sounds letters make are indicated by putting the letter between slashes). The number of letters in a word does not always translate into the same number of phonemes, for instance, ox, a two letter word, has three phonemes, /o/ /k/ /s/ and ‘bone,' a four letter word has only three phonemes /b/ /o/ /n/.

An awareness of the identity and number of sounds in words. The ability to segment sounds and blend sounds into words.

understanding there is a relationship between letters and sounds in language

Refers to the ability to consciously separate individual phonemes in spoken language. The ability to take words apart, put them together again, and change them.

Recognizing the smallest units of sound that make up spoken language.

awareness of the sound system of spoken language including individual sounds, rhyming, components of words, etc.

"An explicit understanding that words are composed of segments of sound smaller than a syllable, as well as knowledge, or awareness, of the distinctive features of individual phonemes themselves" (Torgesen, 1999, p. 129).

The ability to hear and identify individual sounds—or phonemes—in spoken words.

The ability to break words or syllables into sound segments or blend sounds together. Phonemic awareness activities include rhyming tasks, identifying words with similar sound patterns or being able to alter a sound segment in a specific way (say "dog" but leave off the beginning sound).

The International Reading Association defines phonemic awareness as the awareness of the sounds (phonemes) that make up spoken words.

The awareness of sounds in spoken words. A subset of phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness and phonics are not the same. Phonemic awareness is the ability to orally hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds or segments of sound in words. Research has identified phonemic awareness as an essential and necessary ability if the child is become a good reader.

Refers to an understanding that words are composed of individuals sounds. This terms is used to indicate that a child is aware of the smallest units of sound in the language. It is the ability to examine language independently of meaning and to manipulate its component sounds. It requires the ability to attend to a sound in the context of the other sounds in a word. The ability to deal explicitly and segmentally with sound units smaller than the syllable (i.e. phonemes). Elements of the sound structure more relevant to beginning reading are words, syllables, and phonemes.

an understanding about the smallest units of sound that make up the speech stream: phonemes.

The awareness that spoken language can be broken down into phonemes and manipulated within an alphabetic othography.

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the sequence of individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

The awareness of the sounds (phonemes) that make up spoken words. Such awareness does not appear when young children learn to talk; the ability is not necessary for speaking and understanding spoken language; however, phonemic awareness is important for learning to read. In alphabetic languages, letters (and letter clusters) represent phonemes; to learn the correspondences between letters and sounds, one must have some understanding of the notion that words are made up of phonemes.

A subset of phonological awareness; the knowledge that spoken words consist of a sequence of individual sounds, and the understanding that phonemes are rearranged and substituted to create new words. There are a finite set of phonemes which are arranged and rearranged to create an infinite set of spoken words.

the ability to detect individual letter sounds.

Phonemic awareness is the term used to describe the ability to describe the sound that any letter makes in the alphabet. Studies have shown that the ability to recognize the sounds that letters make, or phonemes, is directly related to a person's ability to read and write properly. Students with poor phonemic awareness generally do poorly at spelling and reading, because it takes them longer to figure out the sounds of the words.

The ability to hear similarities and differences among phonemes. Strong phonemic awareness results in the ability to rhyme, to list words that begin and end with the same sound, to break words into individual phonemes, and to blend phonemes together to make a familiar word. Phonemic awareness is essential for learning to read.

Understanding that words are made up of individual sounds (that is, phonemes, the smallest units of sound), with a focus on the structure rather than meaning of words. Phonemic awareness is understood as a critical component of reading success. ( learn more)

Phonemic Awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to distinguish phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. For example, a listener with phonemic awareness can break the word "Cat" into three separate phonemes: /k/, /a/, and /t/.