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Before children can connect letters to words on a page, they must first learn to hear  the sounds inside words. This skill, called phonemic awareness , is the very first foundation of reading. Without it, later steps like phonics, fluency, and comprehension become much harder. Phonemic awareness means recognizing that words are made of smaller sounds (phonemes). For example: dog  → /d/ /o/ /g/ map  → /m/ /a/ /p/ When children can pull apart these sounds and put them back toge