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Ellefson, Michelle R.; Treiman, Rebecca; Kessler, Brett – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Learning about letters is an important foundation for literacy development. Should children be taught to label letters by conventional names, such as /bi/ for "b", or by sounds, such as /b[inverted e]/? We queried parents and teachers, finding that those in the United States stress letter names with young children, whereas those in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Alphabets
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Cassar, Marie; Treiman, Rebecca; Moats, Louisa; Pollo, Tatiana Cury; Kessler, Brett – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Children with dyslexia are believed to have very poor phonological skills for which they compensate, to some extent, through relatively well-developed knowledge of letter patterns. We tested this view in Study 1 by comparing 25 dyslexic children and 25 younger normal children, chosen so that both groups performed, on average, at a second-grade…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Spelling, Comparative Analysis, Children