http://www.readingrockets.org/articles/408
By: Marilyn J. Adams, Barbara Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, and Terri Beeler
(1998)
Research shows that the very notion that spoken language is made up of sequences of little sounds does not come naturally or easily to human
beings. The small units of speech that correspond to letters of an alphabetic writing system are called phonemes. Thus, the awareness that
language is composed of these small sounds is termed phonemic awareness.
The Five Components: -
Phonemic Awareness -
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