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Phonemic awareness is noting that words are made up of individual sounds, called phonemes. Blending the sounds creates a word.
/c/ /a/ /t/ = cat
Activity:
Tapping out words.

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"The NRP (National Reading Panel) reviewed the experimental findings on teaching reading and determined that sytematic and explicit phonic instruction is more effective than nonsystematic phonic approaches and is particularly more effective than reading programs that do not teach phonics at all (NICHD, 2000)."
Vicki L. Cohen & John Edwin Cowen. 2011. Literacy for Children in an Information Age, 2nd edition. Wadsworth. p.168

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Phonics is teaching reading by noting that the sounds of the language correspond to certain letters and letter combinations. Phonics helps emergent readers decode unfamiliar words by recognizing the sounds that letters usually make. Phonics is the "bottom-up" portion of a balanced literacy approach to teaching reading.

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A.J. Jenkins Video Kids TV: Alphabet Phonics

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A.J. Jenkins Video Kids TV: Alphabet Phonics

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Short e sounds like the "e" in the word, "ten."
Long e sounds like the "e" in the word, "we."

Words with short "e" sounds: ten, when, bed, shelf, jet, yes, said, says, went, kept, next, end.

Words with long "e" sounds: we, he, she, be, being, bees, see, green, week, three, street, feet, these, people.