Investigation of Phonological Awareness Interventions in Early Childhood

Abstract

Phonological awareness is one of the most important skills in learning to read. However,phonological awareness skills are also among the predictors of reading success in thefuture. In addition, interventions applied to phonological awareness skills in early childhoodsupport the development of reading skills. Also it is shown that the phonological awarenesstrainings are most effective when applied before starting reading education and show theireffect very clearly in this period. In this study, it is aimed to examine intervention studieson phonological awareness skills in early childhood. For this purpose, 20 articles in whichintervention programs for phonological awareness skills were applied were examined. Theresults obtained from the research findings show that there is an improvement in the phonological awareness skills of the children who are applied phonological awareness interventions. In addition, suggestions for further research were made in line with the findingsobtained from the research