Definition of "phonemic" [phonemic]

• Of or relating to phonemes. (adjective)
• Of or relating to phonemics. (adjective)
• Serving to distinguish phonemes or distinctive features. (adjective)

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• "Improve reading achievement for students from diverse backgrounds with research-supported practices and culturally responsive interventions in phonemic awareness, phonics/decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension."
• "Some indicators that a student needs explicit instruction in phonemic awareness include: skipping words while reading, “sounding out” words incorrectly, attempting a pronunciation that doesn’t make sense, and avoiding reading."
• "Each text is preceded by a complete phonemic inventory of the language and a page or so of linguistic description; each line of the text is given first in a broader transcription, then in a word-by-word phonemic transcription that separates and translates each morpheme, then a complete translation is given more literal than the one in the body of the book."