Graphophonemic Awareness: Development in Elementary Students.

Ehri, Linnea C.; Soffer, Alison G.

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ERIC Number: EJ585450

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Graphophonemic Awareness: Development in Elementary Students.

Ehri, Linnea C.; Soffer, Alison G.

Scientific Studies of Reading, v3 n1 p1-30 1999

Studies elementary students' ability to match up graphemes to phonemes within individual words. Shows that older students exhibited greater graphophonemic awareness and greater digraph knowledge than younger students. Results are interpreted to bear on Ehri's phrase theory of word reading acquisition and on connectionist models of word reading. (SC)

Descriptors: Academic Ability, Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 6, Graphemes, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonemes, Spelling, Visual Perception

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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