Phonemic Awareness

•Phonemic awareness is NOT phonics.

•Phonemic awareness is AUDITORY and does not involve words in print.

• Research indicates a strong relationship between early phoneme awareness and later reading success and, conversely, links reading failure to insufficiently developed phonological awareness. Intervention research clearly demonstrates the benefits of explicitly

teaching phoneme awareness skills. It is recommended that you screen Prep children for phonemic awareness within the first two

weeks, as well as struggling students.

Phonics is a method of teaching reading which first teaches the letter sounds so that children can blend these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words. The method relates to the English language only.

RWI cards used throughout the SSP Approach

SSP Blue Level Sound Pic Sandwich (split digraph)

Speech Sound Clouds used to show all spelling variations for the speech sounds

Of COURSE you need all five elements, but phonemic awareness and phonics are needed to create a solid foundation for life.

Without it, your wall will always be shaky and not serve it’s purpose.

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