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Phoneme Awareness and Future Reading Ability

Virginia A. Mann is a full professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a PhD in experimental psychology from MIT and has been a research associate at Haskins Laboratories, Inc., and a member of the Psychology Department at Bryn Mawr College. Additional research interests include speech perception and sex differences in cognition. Address: Virginia A. Mann, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717.

This study investigates two group-administered tests of phoneme awareness, a phoneme segmentation test and an invented spelling test. Each was given to 100 kindergarten children (48 female, 52 male), along with two tests of visual-motor ability. One year later the same children received standardized reading tests and portions of an IQ test. Scores on each test of phoneme awareness predicted between 30% and 40% of variance in first-grade reading ability. In contrast, scores on the tests of visual-motor ability bore a less systematic, less substantial relation to future reading ability.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 26, No. 4, 259-269 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949302600406


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