Phoneme Awareness Domain
The Phoneme Awareness Domain is assessed by a series of five tasks in the TEST2r battery. These tasks represent increasing levels of difficulty for the child.
Task 3 - Phonetic Spelling
Task 12 - Initial Phoneme Deletion
Task 13 - Final Phoneme Deletion: Real Word Remaining
Task 14 - Final Phoneme Deletion: Non-Word Remaining
Task 15 - Non-Word Reading
Before children can be expected to successfully complete phoneme deletion tasks they must first develop phoneme awareness. Only when they can recognise the different sounds that make up a word can they be expected to progress to an ability to manipulate these sounds and complete initial and final phoneme deletion tasks. If a child evidences problems in phonemic segmentation, the first interventions should be based in phonemic awareness.
Interventions for Rhyme and Alliteration, and Letter Sound Correspondence skills are relevant to this area.
Task 3 - Phonetic Spelling
Task 12 - Initial Phoneme Deletion
Task 13 - Final Phoneme Deletion: Real Word Remaining
Task 14 - Final Phoneme Deletion: Non-Word Remaining
Task 15 - Non-Word Reading
Before children can be expected to successfully complete phoneme deletion tasks they must first develop phoneme awareness. Only when they can recognise the different sounds that make up a word can they be expected to progress to an ability to manipulate these sounds and complete initial and final phoneme deletion tasks. If a child evidences problems in phonemic segmentation, the first interventions should be based in phonemic awareness.
Interventions for Rhyme and Alliteration, and Letter Sound Correspondence skills are relevant to this area.
