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The What Works Clearinghouse has released a new report about phonological awareness training. Although I’d prefer that they use the narrower term phonemic awareness because the forms of phonological awareness that really matter for developing early literacy (segmenting and blending) should be mastered at the phoneme level, the WWC has the right idea in identifying evidence-based practices.

The studies on which the W-W-C bases its findings are mostly from the team of Randi O’Connor, Tim Slocum, and Joe Jenkins. These are wonderfully credible studies and they work together as a good set.

Link to the W-W-C section on phonological awareness, which includes links to other good sources of information about PA (sadly, though, they’ve not discovered the TeachingLD.org article on PA).