Reliability of the Rhyme Sort Measure, An Early Literacy Assessment Tool

Authors

Janet Crapo, Brigham Young University
Dr. Barbara Culatta, Brigham Young University

Keywords

early literacy skills, rhyme sort measure, phonemic awareness, children

College

David O. McKay School of Education

Department

Communication Disorders

Abstract

Early literacy skills in children have become an area of national interest due to the implications in later-developing literacy and academics. These early literacy skills are closely connected with the concept of phonemic awareness, or “the knowledge of meaningful sounds, or phonemes, in our language and how these blend together to form syllables, words, phrases, and sentences” (Robertson & Salter, 1997). Phonemic awareness skills include rhyming, alliteration, phoneme isolation, sound blending, syllable identification, sound segmentation, and invented spellings, all of which play vital roles in learning to read and spell (Adams, 1990). Experts have demonstrated that poor rhyming skills in young children are associated with later difficulty in reading and spelling (Catts, 1997).

Recommended Citation

Crapo, Janet and Culatta, Dr. Barbara (2014) "Reliability of the Rhyme Sort Measure, An Early Literacy Assessment Tool," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/11