Phoneme awareness and future reading ability.
This study investigates two group-administered tests of phoneme awareness, a phoneme segmentation test and an invented spelling test. Each was given to 100 kindergarten children (48 female, 52 male), along with two tests of visual-motor ability. One year later the same children received standardized reading tests and portions of an IQ test. Scores on each test of phoneme awareness predicted between 30% and 40% of variance in first-grade reading ability. In contrast, scores on the tests of visual-motor ability bore a less systematic, less substantial relation to future reading ability.
Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine 92717.
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D001076:Aptitude; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010700:Phonetics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011932:Reading; D014706:Verbal Learning