Reading acquisition is based on a set of preliteracy skills that lay the foundation for future
reading abilities. Phonological awareness—the ability to identify and manipulate the sound …

In this paper, we survey current evidence on cognitive precursors of reading in different
orthographies by reviewing studies with a cross-linguistic research design. Graphic symbol …

Phonological awareness a child's awareness that spoken words can be broken down into
smaller units of sound is now known to be an important predictor of learning to read in …

Phonological awareness and phonological memory have been cited separately as two
cognitive skills thought to underpin literacy. Few studies, however, have investigated the …

Although phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) are confirmed
as early predictors of reading in a large number of orthographies, it is as yet unclear whether …

In this study, 91 Finnish-speaking preschoolers (ranging in age from 6.4 to 7.4 years) were
tested by using 2 structural equation models. None of the participants had entered school at …

Research has demonstrated that there is a strong relation between children's phonological
processing skills and their ability to learn to read an alphabetic orthography. It is unclear …

A cohort of 92 children was followed through sixth grade to investigate the relationship of
preschool skills and first grade phonological awareness to reading and spelling. In …

Phonological awareness skills are prerequisite to early reading, yet the development of
phonological awareness is an understudied phenomenon. To identify factors that contribute …

The notion that the ability to segment speech into its phonological units in an explicit
conscious manner, commonly termed phonological awareness, is related with learning to …