•Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
•Phonemic awareness is important because it improves children’s word reading and reading comprehension as well as helping children learn to spell.
•Phonemic awareness can be developed through a number of activities, including asking children to; identify phonemes, categorize phonemes, blend phonemes to form words, segment words into phonemes, delete or add phonemes to form new words, and substitute phonemes to make new words.