An interesting article posted on CIERA's (Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement) website with statistics that detail the relationship
between phonological awareness, word recognition, and spelling with reading.
This study examined the relationship
between phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 four and five year - old children.
One interesting finding was the association
between phonological deficits and lesions in the anterior temporal lobe and mid-fusiform gyrus.
Not exact matches
The researchers found measurable growth in
phonological awareness and understanding the connections
between speech and printed letters for the group using the Learn with Homer app, compared with the group using the art and activity app.
The left temporo - parietal cortex showed a relationship
between increased activity after remediation and improvement in oral language ability and word blending, a measure of
phonological awareness (Fig. 2).
Hence, some
phonological and phonemic awareness tasks can transfer
between Spanish and English, indicating that knowledge in Spanish is useful in acquiring English reading skills.
This series of studies uses neuroscience methods to investigate the relationships
between: (1) aesthetic ability, arts education, and improvement in children's reading ability; (2) visual arts exposure and
phonological awareness and (3) visual arts exposure and math calculation abilities.
Word boxes and word sorts are two phonic approaches that help children make connections
between sound and print by gaining an awareness of the
phonological and orthographic features of words.
This article from a theme issue examines the relationships
between emergent literacy skills and
phonological awareness in preliterate children.
Dorothy V. M. Bishop and Catherine Adams, «A Prospective Study of the Relationship
between Specific Language Impairment,
Phonological Disorders and Reading Retardation,» Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 31 (1990): 1027 — 1050.
From the late 1960s onward,
phonological methods based on learning the alphabetic principle — that is, the relationship
between letters and their sounds — came into wide usage and dominated the teaching of reading.
Specifically, Cook found that
phonological processing («the ability to discriminate and detect differences in phonemes and speech sounds») and semantic processing (encoding a word's meaning and making connections
between the word and other words with similar meanings) are well established by third grade.
Numerous studies have reported a correlation
between writing letters of the alphabet in ECE and the ability to spell in the first grade as well as strong associations
between ECE experience and letter knowledge,
phonological awareness and early reading (Adams, 1990; Bryant & Bradley, 1985; Wagner et al., 1994).