This guide will help teach phonemic awareness to Pre K-3 students. It presents phonemic awareness as a sophisticated branch of phonological awareness through interactive activities that allows the student to succeed in learning the sounds represented by the letters of the alphabet. The book is designed to provide easy-to-follow suggestions for: (1) assessing student's phonemic awareness; (2) instruction on phonemic awareness skills and strategies or activities that reinforce those skills; and (3) development of phonemic awareness through rhymes, riddles, games, word sorting, sound manipulation, and songs to reinforce patterns in words. Contents include: (1) Introduction; (2) The Sounds in Words: A Theoretical Perspective; (3) Phonemic Awareness: An Overview; (4) Questions and Answers About Phonemic Awareness; (5) Phonemic Awareness Assessment; (6) Fundamentals of Phonemic Awareness Every Practitioner Must Know; and (7) Instruction and Strategies; Six appendices include: (1) Practice and Reinforcement Activities; (2) Literary Selections; (3) Books That Support Phonetic Elements; (4) Web Sites; (5) English and Spanish Form Letters; and (6) Common Phonogram Patterns or Rimes.