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Skill Explainer

3.2 Explicitly Teach Phoneme Identification

Phoneme Identification Skill Explainer

Marion McBride, M.Ed.

A Step-by-Step Phoneme Identification Lesson

A phoneme is an individual sound in a word. We use these individual sounds to build words. To learn to read and spell words, we have to be able to hear each phoneme in the word.

We are going to learn to listen for sounds in the beginning of words, the middle of words, and the end of words.

The word is go.

I want to go to the park.

Go.

Gooooo.

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