The International Dyslexia Association published the following document summarizing the research and classroom implications for phoneme awareness.
"Building Phoneme Awareness:Know What Matters" (2022), support teachers wishing to learn more about phoneme awareness, why it is necessary, and how it develops. The fact sheet also contains tips for effective practices to build children’s phoneme awareness.
Sections include:
- Why Phoneme Awareness Is Important for Learning to Read
- Why Phoneme Awareness Is Challenging to Acquire
- Phoneme Awareness as the Starting Point
- How Phoneme Awareness Develops
- Why It Is Important to Coordinate Phoneme Awareness Instruction with the Teaching of Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences, Spelling (Encoding), and Handwriting
- The Impact of Speaking a Second Language or a Different Dialect
- When to Provide Instruction in Syllable and Rhyme Structures
- Implications for Instruction and Assessment
