Phonological matching task with pictures: performance differences in prereader children from different socioeconomic status

Abstract

Several researchers have demonstrated that phonological awareness is an important factor in reading development and, it has also been confirmed that there is a positive relationship between reading and phonological awareness: evidences reveal that measures of phonological awareness skills in prereaders are related to their later success in reading. In order to detect early difficulties in a phonological awareness a group of 127 prereaders from different socioeconomic environment were asked to identify drawings´ beginning or ending with the same syllable or the same phoneme. The analysis showed statistical differences depending on the unit assesed as well as differences between the two socioeconomic groups tested.