RCI-00724 · Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness — Educator / Community Leader Starter Confidence Sprint · Self-Paced

Hear, identify and manipulate the sound structures that underpin confident reading. This version is designed for adults supporting readers at starter level through independent digital learning.

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What you should be able to do

  • Develop secure sound discrimination with highly supported practice.
  • Develop increasingly independent blending with highly supported practice.
  • Develop applied segmenting with highly supported practice.
  • Develop confident phoneme manipulation with highly supported practice.
  • Apply Phonemic Awareness skills through short focused progress appropriate to adults supporting readers.
  • Reflect on progress, explain strategies used and identify a clear next step.

Course journey

Unit 1 · Listening for SoundsFocus: sound discrimination

Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to adults supporting readers.

Unit 2 · Blend It TogetherFocus: blending

Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to adults supporting readers.

Unit 3 · Break Words ApartFocus: segmenting

Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to adults supporting readers.

Unit 4 · Sound Change ChallengeFocus: phoneme manipulation

Learn, practise, apply and reflect through activities adapted to adults supporting readers.

How learning is evidenced

Practice evidence

Short activities, reading responses, writing tasks, discussion or applied practice depending on the pathway.

Completion task

A final age- and level-appropriate task demonstrating the key course outcomes. Successful completion can generate an RCI certificate of completion; it is not presented as a regulated qualification.

Who this pathway is for

This pathway is designed for Educator / Community Leader learners (adults supporting readers) who want to develop sound discrimination, blending, segmenting, phoneme manipulation at Starter level.

Progression

After completion, learners can move into a higher-level pathway within Phonemic Awareness, apply the skill in another literacy domain, join a Reading Ambassador pathway, or continue through the Reading Passport and Literacy App.

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