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Similarities Between Phonemic Awareness And Phonics

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Phonemic Awareness and Phonics have been part of the learning process for many years. They both have different roles and meanings in education. It teaches children how to read words, comprehend, learn to spell, decode, blend and so forth. Phonemic Awareness teaches children to hear and identify the sounds in words. A child that is phonemically aware can isolate sounds, blend and segment sounds orally and in written text. Some examples of phonemic awareness are the use of a three to four colored cubes where we give the sounds of a word and the children give the word. We also use a bound booklet of Tammy Clemente Watson that gives words that the teacher can use for rhyming, phonemic awareness and segment first sound, middle sound and or …show more content…

This process can be both auditory and visual. Children being taught phonics show improvement in their reading comprehension skills, spelling skills and growth in their reading skills. Some examples of phonics is alphabet recognition, ABC order, to blend sounds together to read words and or to read sight words. So if you have the word “apple,” you can have the children segment the word a/p/l and then blend the sounds together to make the word. Some similarities between phonemic awareness and phonics are the blending and both are auditory. Some differences are phonics is visual, focuses on the letter sound relationship to words and the use of print. Other differences is the CVC, CVCe patterns and r controlled vowels that are used in phonics. Phonemic awareness and phonics are very important skills for children to learn at an early age. I think the more you read to your children the better they will be with reading skills. If parents take interest in their children learning process early on, then they will have a head start in being successful in reading. As teachers, we build on the children’s phonemic awareness to be able to teach phonics and

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