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Dyslexia · Glossary term

Phonemic Awareness

Hearing and manipulating the individual sounds (phonemes) inside words. Foundation skill before decoding works. Asking ‘what's the first sound in cat?' — answer: /k/, not ‘c'.

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Generating age-6–8 examples for "Phonemic Awareness"…