Phonemic awareness
Teaching phonemic awareness skills is when words are broken down into individual sounds (phonemes). The words are then joining the parts to form words or sound out the words. Phonemic awareness as "the awareness that phonemes exist as abstractable and manipulable components of spoken language" (p. 696). It is the ability to reflect on speech and experiment with it smallest components, phonemes.Yopp (1992)
Phonics
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Basic process of teaching phonics and phonemic awareness to children: Includes teaching them the letters and letter sounds
Then you teach the child to combine (or blend) various letter sounds together to form words; which is then followed by reading sentences and simple stories.
In teaching ELL students, this method allows that student to have a background of sound that allows them to build words upon. As they go further in reading their word development will improve. However, when teaching special needs and the gifted student population the technique may vary depending on the level of need. Either way you will have success.
In conclusion, phonics and phonemic awareness are great options to use in teaching reading skills to students. As per the author it allows that students to use their language to memorize sound with letter and then words to picture, students relate word families and so on. To not use this method of teaching would be doing the students a disservice and may hinder their success in