Phoneme awareness is a better predictor of early reading skill than onset-rime awareness.

We present the results of a short-term longitudinal study. Children in the early stages of learning to read (5 and 6 year olds) were administered three different tasks (deletion, oddity, and detection) tapping awareness of four phonological units (initial phoneme, final phoneme, onset, and rime). Me...

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Main Authors: Hulme, C, Hatcher, P, Nation, K, Brown, A, Adams, J, Stuart, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2002