Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in words. We know that a student’s skill in phonemic awareness is a good predictor of later reading success or difficulty. We have continued our study of phonemic awareness through the exploration of word families. Our first word family of focus was the -at family. After becoming familiar with our at family reader, the students enjoyed buddy reading throughout the classroom. Reading and rereading text allows students to become more proficient in fluency and and have more practice with the reading strategies they have learned so far!
