Adams reviews various
phonemic awareness tasks, arranging them from «most primitive» to most sophisticated as follows: knowledge of nursery rhymes, oddity tasks, blending and syllable - splitting, phonemic segmentation, and phoneme manipulation.
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.
Six scores were obtained from the three MLPP activities: one for each of the three tasks, and three additional subscores derived from
the Phonemic Awareness task.
Not exact matches
[From findings on the Transfer of Skills from Spanish to English: A Study of Young Learners, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.] The results indicated that Spanish
phonemic awareness, Spanish letter identification, and Spanish word reading were reliable predictors of performance on parallel
tasks in English at the end of third and fourth grades.
It is important for teachers to help children make the connection between the
phonemic awareness skills taught and their application to reading and writing
tasks.
In addition, we collected data from several
tasks included in the Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (MLPP), including (a)
phonemic awareness (PA); (b) hearing and recording sounds (HRS); and (c) Concepts About Print (CAP).