As part of our district transition to structured literacy instruction, a "word play" block is woven into our daily schedule focused on phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which are called phonemes. A child who is phonemically aware is able to isolate sounds, manipulate sounds, and blend and segment the sounds into spoken and written words. "Word Play" is quickly becoming a favorite part of our learning day. Ask your child to show you how to change the first sound in a word to another sound to create a whole new word! For example, change the /b/ sound in back to an /r/ sound and create the new word rack.
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