Students do not learn the individual sounds of the language by practicing them in isolation from words, nor words in isolation from sentences and meaning."(2015) this is why phonemic awareness is important to teach. Phonemic awareness is how what students are taught to teach them to read. They learn to hear individual sounds in spoken words.

This awareness is learned by showing students that some words have the same sounds, but a letter of the word will be different. Phonemic awareness and phonics are not the same. Phonemic awareness teaches students that the sounds of letters make words were as phonics teaches students that there is a relationship between letters and sound that make up words to be read.

Piper, T. (2015). Language, learning, and culture: English language learning in today's schools. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

1. How can you help an ELL develop Phonemic awareness?

2.What are some activities a teacher can use to help an ELL with Phonemic awareness?

3.What is the importance of Phonemic awareness?

4.At what age should a student being to learn Phonemic awareness?

5,What assessment tools should be used to document how students are developing with Phonemic awareness?