Phonemic awareness is one of my favorite topics relating to literacy instruction.  Studies of reading development have demonstrated that the acquisition of phonemic awareness is highly predictive of success in learning to read.  It’s so important that our beginning readers have an understanding that spoken words are made of up individual speech sounds so that phonics instruction makes sense.  Teaching phonemic awareness skills can be actually quite fun.  There are tons of activities that you can use during your whole and small group instruction.  Here are a few: There are several skills which fall under the category of phonemic awareness and phonemic awareness awareness falls under a broader category known as phonological awareness.   I’ve created this little video to