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What is phonological
awareness?
This is the ability to analyze and connect, to combine the smallest units
of discernible sounds with their graphic symbol (letters) and then learn
how to combine each individual sound in a variety of ways.
Dyslexic individuals
have difficulty with this process and must have direct and explicit instruction
in phonemic awareness.
Without it, these
individuals experience chronic reading, writing and spelling failure, which
severely erodes self-esteem, which further impairs learning.
"Research also
indicates that few teachers in the United States know how to address the
role of phonemic awareness in reading. (Only 10% of the teachers assessed
were, themselves, phonemically aware). Currently, few college courses offer
teacher training in phonemic awareness."
"The scientific
and educational research on reading is so compelling that the question
is not, should we teach phonological awareness, but how can we best incorporate
it into the particular approaches currently being used to teach reading?
Phonemic awareness must be included in all reading programs if all children
are to learn to read and spell."
Taken from Stanovich,
Keith E. "Romance and Reality." The Reading Teacher Vol. 47,
No. 4. December 1993/January 1994.
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