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Phonological Skills and Learning to Read

By Peter Bryant and Usha Goswami
Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology
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Phonological Skills and Learning to Read explores the crucial role of phonological awareness in early reading development. The authors, Peter Bryant and Usha Goswami, argue that children's ability to recognise speech units such as onset and rime precedes and enables their reading progress. Integrating recent research, the book demonstrates how awareness of rhymes and other sound units helps children master letter sequences and make inferences necessary for reading and writing new words.
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Ideal for educators, researchers, and students in psychology and education, particularly those focused on literacy development and early reading skills.

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This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom.

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This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom. It aims to develop a theory about why early phonological skills are crucial in learning to read, and shows how phonological knowledge about rhymes and other units of sound helps children learn about letter sequences when beginning to be taught to read.

The authors begin by contrasting theories which suggest that children's phonological awareness is a result of the experience of learning to read and those that suggest that phonological awareness precedes, and is a causal determinant of, reading. The authors argue for a version of the second kind of theory and show that children are aware of speech units, called onset and rime, before they learn to read and spell. An important part of the argument is that children make analogies and inferences about these letter sequences in order to read and write new words.

Phonological Skills and Learning to Read by Peter Bryant and Usha Goswami offers invaluable insights into these processes, making it an essential read for anyone interested in the development of reading skills in children.

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"Goswami and Bryant assemble an impressive number of research studies which bear on their thesis, outlining them clearly and succinctly. They write persuasively but never dogmatically, revealing a refreshing willingness to give credit to theoretical positions other than their own. This book deserves serious attention by all those who are keen to relate the practice of the teaching of reading to theory which is firmly grounded in careful empirical work." – Katherine Perera, The Times Higher Education Supplement

"I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this monograph...The argument is a delight...This will be a very valuable contribution to thinking about the role of phonological processing in reading and in learning to read, but it will also be usable as an undergraduate text. I shall certainly consider using it to support my own course on Reading and Understanding." – Professor Geoffrey Underwood, Reader in Cognitive Psychology, University of Nottingham

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ISBN: 9780863771514

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 December 1990

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Psychology Press Ltd

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 174

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