Phonemic awareness

Teaching Phonemic Awareness

Just like phonics skills, there is a developmental sequence to teaching phonological awareness skills.

"Cerebral Cortex" Article on Brain Activity

This fascinating study looks at differences in brain activity between a child with dyslexia and a child without dyslexia.

Teaching Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness is different from phonics (and includes phonemic awareness) and is an essential skill to learn to read. Therefore, it is critical to make this concept explicit for all students with dyslexia. This page and video help explain further.

Phonemic Awareness Activities

A compilation of various phonemic awareness activities such as rhyming, elision, and blending that will help make therapy productive and fun.

Word Retrieval and Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN)

Understand how word retrieval fluency and rapid automatic naming affect a dyslexic individual.