A long line of research now agrees that phonemic awareness is the best predictor of the ease of early reading acquisition, better than IQ, vocabulary, and listening comprehension. (Stanovich, 1993-94)
“One of the most compelling and well-established findings in the research on beginning reading is the important relationship between phonemic awareness and reading acquisition.” (Kame’enui, et. al., 1997)
The research further suggests that by the age of five, 80% of children have phonemic awareness skills, while 20% don’t. Without proper assessment and training, those who lack this cognitive skill at the age of five are likely to lack it at the ages of 15, 25, and 65 too.
Because simple phonological awareness tasks help facilitate early reading and writing, they are highly relevant to spelling. The task of separating words into individual phonemes has been found to be a strong predictor of spelling ability (Nation & Hulme, 1997).
A strong correlation exists between phonological awareness and spelling skills because spelling errors are generally phonetically accurate (Kamhi & Hinton, 2000).
Emergent literacy consists of the skills, knowledge, and abilities that are prerequisites to the tasks of reading, writing, and spelling (Justice & Pullen, 2003).
“One of the most compelling and well-established findings in the research on beginning reading is the important relationship between phonemic awareness and reading acquisition.” (Kame’enui, et. al., 1997)
The research further suggests that by the age of five, 80% of children have phonemic awareness skills, while 20% don’t. Without proper assessment and training, those who lack this cognitive skill at the age of five are likely to lack it at the ages of 15, 25, and 65 too.
Because simple phonological awareness tasks help facilitate early reading and writing, they are highly relevant to spelling. The task of separating words into individual phonemes has been found to be a strong predictor of spelling ability (Nation & Hulme, 1997).
A strong correlation exists between phonological awareness and spelling skills because spelling errors are generally phonetically accurate (Kamhi & Hinton, 2000).
Emergent literacy consists of the skills, knowledge, and abilities that are prerequisites to the tasks of reading, writing, and spelling (Justice & Pullen, 2003).