EDUC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics
18 Feb 2018
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If you know how a skill or strategy develops, you know the order in which to teach it. If you know how to assess level of student development, you know where to start with that student. If you know the benchmarks, for development, you know, whether a student has adequate development for his or her age. Literacy skills emerge in the first years of school. We know a lot abut the sequence of skills development in reading and in spelling (or writing: pretend reading pretend writing conventional reading and writing. Phonemic awareness + alphabet knowledge = spelling. Concept of word + alphabet knowledge = reading. The ability to detect, manipulate and use the sound structure of spoken language independent of meaning. Not the use of letter sounds to read words. Young children who are given training in phonological awareness have accelerated reading acquisitions.
