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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Published in:Journal of experimental child psychology 2002-05, Vol.82 (1), p.2-28
Main Authors: Hulme, Charles, Hatcher, Peter J., Nation, Kate, Brown, Angela, Adams, John, Stuart, George
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Awareness
Beginning Reading
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Emergent Literacy
England
Female
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Onsets and Rimes
phoneme
Phonemic Awareness
Phonetics
Phonological Awareness
phonological L awareness
Phonological Skills
Phonology
Predictor Variables
Prognosis
Reading
Reading Skills
rime (rhyme)
Semantics
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Summary: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). Measures of phoneme awareness were the best concurrent and longitudinal predictors of reading skill with onset-rime skills making no additional predictive contribution once phonemic skills were accounted for. The findings are related to recent controversy over the role of large versus small phonological units as predictors of children's reading skills.
ISSN:0022-0965
1096-0457
DOI:10.1006/jecp.2002.2670