Pure phonological awareness skills can be learned blindfolded; however, young children often benefit from pictures to help them understand
phonological awareness tasks and activities.
Not exact matches
In the fall of kindergarten, participants were assigned standardized
tasks of reading and memory as well as experimental
tasks of
phonological awareness, letter identification, rapid naming, and
phonological memory.
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.
For this reason, the new NFER Reception Baseline Assessment, completed on school entry, includes
tasks and checklists designed to assess a child's abilities in both language and
phonological awareness.
However, as a result of low reading scores, a
task force was formed and has recently adopted a more balanced reading approach that includes building
phonological awareness along with the reading of meaningful and engaging texts.
phoneme
awareness, specifically phoneme segmentation, blending, and manipulation
tasks; letter naming fluency; letter sound association;
phonological memory, including nonword repetition; oral vocabulary; and word recognition fluency (i.e., accuracy and rate)(Compton, et al., 2010; Jenkins & Johnson, 2008).