What awareness!?!

For all those folks out their wondering what is phonemic awareness and why does my kid need it.....

Phonemic awareness is being able to break words into sounds and use sounds to make words, but only the sound part of it, not the written word... that's phonics

When you hear the word CAT, you hear /c/ /a/ and /t/.... That is phonemic awareness! you are aware of each phoneme (sound)

Check out this ladder... you start at the bottom. The top the ladder continues into phonics.