Intentional Learning Change in behavior that is directly taught or sought. Literacy Being literate includes reading, writing, and the creative and analytical acts involved in producing and comprehending texts. For a fuller discussion of literacy, visit the Literacy and Illiteracy web site. Phoneme A phoneme is the smallest functional unit of speech. Letters often represent more than one phoneme.
Phonemic awareness is the foundation upon which are constructed all other reading skills.
For a fuller discussion of this, visit Principles for Learning to Read. Being cognizant of phonemes within spoken words. Children learn to master the sounds and letter blends that make up words through drills and analyses. The student learns vowels, consonants, and blends, and the student also learns to sound out words by combining sounds and blending them into words. By associating speech sounds with letters the student learns to recognize new and unfamiliar words.