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

C Hulme; P J Hatcher; K Nation; A Brown; J Adams; G Stuart

doi:10.1006/jecp.2002.2670

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

C Hulme, P J Hatcher, K Nation, A Brown, J Adams, G Stuart

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Abstract

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. filial 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. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	228
Number of pages	27
Journal	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume	82
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/jecp.2002.2670
Publication status	Published - May 2002

Keywords

phonological L awareness
reading
phoneme
rime (rhyme)
PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING ABILITIES
SYNTACTIC AWARENESS
BEGINNING READERS
WORD-RECOGNITION
CHILDREN
RHYME
DIFFICULTIES
SENSITIVITY
ACQUISITION
LANGUAGE

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