Final answer:
At age 6, children's Basic Phonemic Awareness skills should focus on simple syllables with vowel sounds, essential for early literacy development.
Step-by-step explanation:
At age 6, Basic Phonemic Awareness skills include syllable deletion, deleting part of a compound, onset-rime blending, beginning phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation, simple syllables with vowel sounds (no blends) by using tasks such as 'Say parsnip. Say it again but don't say par.' and '/sh/ - op (shop), say each sound in the word as you move a chip for each sound: /sh/ - /e/, /m/-/a/-/n/'. This question addresses how children at this age engage in basic phonological awareness exercises and develop an understanding of sound-letter correspondence, which is crucial for their literacy development.
Research indicates that babies can initially discriminate among the sounds of all human languages, but by the time they are about 1 year old, they specialize in recognizing the phonemes that make up their environment's languages. These foundational skills are built upon during early childhood as children learn to segment and manipulate the sounds within their language more proficiently.