This document discusses phonemic awareness and provides recommendations for developing phonemic awareness skills in children. It defines phonemic awareness as the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. It recommends focusing on developing seven key phonemic awareness skills: discriminating, counting, rhyming, alliteration, blending, segmenting, and manipulating. The document provides examples of activities parents can do at home and techniques teachers can use at school to help children practice each skill. The overall message is that regular practice of these fun activities for short periods of time is important for improving phonemic awareness.