The Importance of Phonemic Awareness in Learning to Read | by Wesley A. Hoover
http://www.sedl.org/pubs/sedl-letter/v14n03/3.html
In SEDL Newsletter, December 2002
Phonemic awareness is a critical skill for learning to read an
alphabetically written language. Yet a fair amount of confusion, especially
among educators, persists about what this skill is and why it is so
important. Written for practitioners, this article describes phonemic
awareness and discusses why it is a prerequisite for learning to read, how
we have come to understand its importance, why it can be difficult to
acquire, and what happens to the would-be reader who fails to acquire it.
Our discussion of phonemic awareness is framed within a particular view of
reading, to which we turn first.
This article contains important discriminations between phonemic awareness,
phonics, phonetics, and phonological awareness.
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