Phonemic Awareness Assessments​

Assessments for phonemic awareness must take place when the student is reading and writing.

• Listen to how the student stretches out a word when they are attempting to spell.
• Is the student able to blend and segment words as they are reading?
• Can the child identify rhymes in a book, or in a sentence?

If a student is consistently doing these things, then they have good phonemic awareness. If a student is struggling to do these, then try some of the strategies in the phonemic awareness instructional strategies page.

References

• Cunningham, P. M., & Allington, R. L. (2016). Classrooms that work: They can all read and write. Pearson.