Question: A first-grade teacher follows a specific sequence of instruction when teaching phonological and phonemic awareness. For example, the first series of lessons are designed to help students focus on isolating individual words in a sentence. Later, the teacher focuses on syllabication and progresses to the phoneme level in words. Which of the following statements best explains the research-based rationale for sequencing phonological and phonemic awareness instruction in this way? Group of answer choices Students need to be able to recognize syllables in print before they can work with phonemes. Larger units of sound are easier to detect and manipulate than smaller units of sound. Phonological awareness is an umbrella term; phonemic awareness is a specific type of phonics instruction. Phonemic awareness should follow phonological skills, and syllabication is the most important phonological skill.