These results suggest that phonological awareness instruction promotes oral English proficiency for Spanish-speaking kindergarten children. Thus, a balanced reading program for limited English ...

Phonological awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of sounds and recognising how they come together to form words. Children usually develop this skill at around 4 or 5 years ...

Phonological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological access to lexical storage play important roles in acquiring literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of ...

Good phonological awareness enables children to more readily develop an understanding of the alphabetic nature of English such as there is a direct relationship between the sound of the spoken ...

Playful games promote reading development Date: May 15, 2012 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: Short but intense training sessions in the form of structured language games from the age of ...