PHONEMIC AWARENESS
“The Relationship Between Phonemic Awareness and Later Reading Achievement” discussed two studies that were conducted in order to better explain the effect of phonemic awareness on future reading achievement and ability. ... The test mainly consisted of rhyme and oddity tasks, and phonemic segmentation and deletion. ... These students were again tested for phonemic awareness. ... These results of these tests are informal because phonemic awareness has many aspects that are not yet fully understood. “Until our knowledge becomes more sophisticated, educators should be more skeptical of making important educational decisions about placement based on children performance on phonemic awareness tasks. Instead poor performance on tests of phonemic awareness should be used as a mandate to provide explicit instruction in phonemic awareness as part of beginning reading instruction” (1997, p.