Which ability is NOT part of phonemic awareness?

Recognizing sight words is not part of phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness specifically refers to the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in words—these are known as phonemes. Skills involved in phonemic awareness include identifying beginning sounds, segmenting words into their phonemes, and manipulating those phonemes to create new words or sounds. While recognizing sight words plays a crucial role in reading development and fluency, it does not involve the conscious awareness or manipulation of phonemes, which is the focus of phonemic awareness activities. Thus, sight word recognition falls under a different category of literacy skills that emphasize visual recognition rather than auditory processing of sounds.