Integrated Language Arts

Phonemic Awareness - A child is sensitive to the sounds of the language, to the sounds within words, and feels the words in their mouth when they are spoken.

• Children know that words are made of a sequence of sounds.
• Children can tell when a word sounds like another word in some way.
• Children hear individual sounds, syllables, onsets and rimes, word parts, and whole word units.

(Pinnell & Fountas: Word Matters)