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Phonemes and Executive Functions in Early Reading Development

Dr Marion Long

Published on: 24/01/2024

A meta analysis, in which many research studies were compared found significant relationships between decoding print and executive function skills. This challenges the dominant view that word recognition relies on knowledge of phonemes and graphemes.

Phonemic AwarenessWord recognitionExecutive Functions

How rhythm defines

phonemic awareness

“It’s only an hour that they have with you over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.” Year 3 teacher

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