Phonemic awareness overview

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Overview

This document outlines the continuum of phonological and phonemic awareness skills and provides evidence and advice on effective phonemic awareness instruction.

Who is this document for?

Foundation to Year 2 teachers; school leaders. 

What will you learn?

What phonemic awareness is and why it is an important part of phonics lessons.

How to incorporate phonemic awareness into phonics lessons.

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Introduction to SSP video series 

View the five videos in this series, which outline the evidence base and key features of a systematic synthetic phonics approach. 

Phonics professional learning: getting started with a phonics progression

The Literacy Hub is providing free, online professional learning to support schools through each step of building a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach for reading and spelling. It includes online reading, free downloadable resources and webinars.

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