Phonemic analysis, spelling, and reading

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Treiman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 810 KB
• Volume: 1985
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1520-3247
• DOI: 10.1002/cd.23219852703

✦ Synopsis

To understand how children learn to read and spell and the kinds of difficulties that they face, we need to know more about their conceptions of spoken language. Such knowledge is important because written English is primarily an alphabetic system-to a first approximation, it represents the sounds of the spoken language. Although exceptions occur, each letter (or pair of letters) generally corresponds to a unit of sound called a phoneme (Venezky, 1970). Because of the alphabetic nature of English writing, many investigators have suggested that the ability to conceive of spoken words as sequences of phonemes is important in learning to read and write (