Information For           Students Parents Teachers Administrators Information About Grants & Contracts Financial Aid Research & Statistics Policy Programs

A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Research-Based Instruction in Reading

Student Achievement and School Accountability Conference
October 2002

| |

Text (slide 6):

Important Points about Phonemic Awareness: (cont.)

• Phonemic awareness instruction can help preschoolers, kindergartners, first graders, and older, less able readers.
• The most important forms of phonemic awareness to teach are blending and segmentation, because they are the processes that are centrally involved in reading and spelling words.