The Connection between knowing Letter names & Learning Letter sounds Flashcards
Learners’ knowledge of letter names is a strong predictor for …
Their later reading success
Knowledge of letter names usually develops ____ letter-sound knowledge
earlier/before
Why is knowledge of letter names important?
knowing letter names may make it easier to master the grapheme-phoneme relationship
How might knowing letter names help learners with identifying letter-sounds?
Letter names sometimes contain the sound of the letter.
For example: B
Why should letter sounds not replace letter names?
Letter sounds do not provide unique identifiers for letters. In English, several letters may make the same sound or letters may make more than one sound depending on the context.
Letter-sound knowledge is essential for …
decoding
Why might letter names be easier to learn than letter sounds?
They are syllabic whereas phonemes are asyllabic and harder to pronounce/more abstract
