The Effect of Educational Websites on Phonemic Awareness

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INTRODUCTION5

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Rhyme and Alliteration8

Phonemic Segmentation9

Phoneme Blending10

Technology & Educational Websites11

SMART board with Phonemic Awareness13

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Introduction

The ability of noticing, thinking about and working with various individual sounds in words is referred to as phonemic awareness (Castles, et al., 2011). Being a subset of phonological awareness, phonemic awareness focuses on the aspect of the listeners being able to hear, manipulate and identify phonemes. Phonemes basically refer to a simple unit of a language, these combined with other phonemes are formed to make unit which are meaningful, such that it forms into a word or a morpheme (Gromoko, 2005). Phonemic awareness has no single definition which could define its complete aspect. Since the 1990s, the term phonemic awareness has researchers have endeavored to study early literacy development and perusing disability. On a regular basis, the term phonemic awareness is usually used to describe the knowledge pertaining to oral language and more precisely related to the segmentation of sounds which make an important part of the entire speech communication.

All the children who have been exposed to phonemic awareness have the ability of segmenting sounds so that it transforms into words (Stefanous, et al., 2010). For instance, pronouncing the very first word which they catch in their mind and then blending it together in such a manner that a word is formed out of it. Regularly, the term phonemic awareness is utilized interchangeably with the term phonological awareness (Loui, et al., 2011). To be precise, phonemic awareness implies a comprehension about the smallest units of sound that make up the speech stream: phonemes. Phonological awareness envelops bigger units of sound besides, for example syllables, onsets, and rimes.

Phonemic awareness plays a vital role in improving the children's ability to read words, learn spelling and on a bigger level it seeks to enhance the reading comprehension skills. It forms the basis of learning phonics. Before children are made to learn how to read print, phonemic awareness helps them become more are of how various sounds in word work. Understanding this dynamic radically help them in adapting the skill of making sense out of the print which they read. Phonemic awareness instills the aspect of making the children understand that words are made up of different speech sounds, or also known as phonemes. Usually, such phonemic awareness is developed in kids through a series of activities, these include making the children identify different sounds, categorize it accordingly, blending different sounds in order to make words out of it, deleting or adding sounds In order to form new words, substituting sounds to make new words out of it and ...