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Horlyck, Stephanie; Reid, Amanda; Burnham, Denis – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
Does the intensification of what can be called "language-specific speech perception" around reading onset occur as a function of maturation or experience? Preschool 5-year-olds with no school experience, 5-year-olds with 6 months' schooling, 6-year-olds with 6 months' schooling, and 6-year-olds with 18 months' schooling were tested on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Primary Education
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Byrne, Brian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Results of 6 experiments with 109 Australian preschool children favor training in phoneme identity over segmentation as a component of initial reading instruction because it is easier to implement and its relation to alphabetic insight is stronger. Implications for the initial reading curriculum are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries