Phonemic Awareness Five Fun Ways to Incorporate It! What is it?: Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words. Why is it important?: Well, actually, it’s one of the most important skills we can teach our early readers. Studies show that phonemic awareness is an indicator of future reading success. The Scoop: In fact, David Kilpatrick, author of numerous reading books and professor of psychology, states that, “The most common source of reading difficulties is poor phonemic awareness.” To boot, he also mentions that there’s no age limit on phonemic awareness - which stresses its importance. Phonemic awareness needs to be incorporated daily with lots of modeling. It should be applied to print, but we also want to be sure students can be doing it like it’s second nature.  Additional Resources & References: Resources: Phonemic Awareness Warm Ups Phonemic Awareness Bundle Phoneme Segmentation Activities References: What Does Phonemic Awareness Mean? Making the Most of Phonemic Awareness 5 Ways to Incorporate Phonemic Awareness Every Day **Did you miss signing up for my podcast email sequence?  When you opt-in, you get an email each day a podcast is released, plus a portion of an intervention e-book that corresponds to and compliments each podcast’s subject.**