The Effect of Phonological Awareness Skills Instruction on Reading Speed and Comprehension of Second Grade Elementary Dyslexic Students

Reading properly and understanding what is read, is always a concern which in the case of failure in this area, the person will face a failure in reading. So, dyslexia is a progressive problem that hurts other educational fields. There for this research was carried out aiming to determine the effect of teaching the skills of phonological knowledge on the deficient reading student speed of reading and understanding the texts. The design of the study was half experimental consisting pre –test and post- test with a control group. The statistical society of the study included the entire deficient reading students at the second grade of elementary school in learning Disorder centers of Hamedan city in 1392-1393.from among of them Twenty students were chosen and they were randomly divided into two groups; an experimental group and a control group. Then , in ten forty – five – minute sessions, the phonological knowledge was taught to the experimental groups. To gather data these experiments were used : reading recognition test , deficient reading check list , phonological knowledge assignments , and Raven test. The consequences of this study showed that teaching phonology can improve the students' skill of phonological knowledge and in crease their reading speed and their power of understanding the texts.