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Cassano, Christina M., Ed.; Dougherty, Susan M., Ed. – Guilford Press, 2018
This reader-friendly text examines the key foundational studies in early literacy. It addresses such essential questions as how research informs current practices and where the field still needs to go to provide the best learning opportunities for all children. Each chapter describes the methods and findings of one to five seminal studies,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Perez, Idalia Rodriguez – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008
This guide will help teach phonemic awareness to Pre K-3 students. It presents phonemic awareness as a sophisticated branch of phonological awareness through interactive activities that allows the student to succeed in learning the sounds represented by the letters of the alphabet. The book is designed to provide easy-to-follow suggestions for:…
Descriptors: Phonics, Beginning Reading, Phonemics, Alphabets
Clay, Marie M. – 1979
The difficulties children face as they are learning to read is the focus of this book, which is a collection of children's work (drawings and handwriting), with statements exploring their implications. The introduction discusses the relationship between early writing and early reading, individual differences, the question of age norms, questions…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing
Mathews, Mitford M. – 1976
The history of teaching people to read is explored from the introduction of the Greek alphabet about 3,000 years ago to the present renewed interest in sound symbol relationships. Greek schoolboys were required to learn first the alphabet in order, next commonly used syllables, and then words. English was first written in the Latin alphabet using…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Starrett, Edmund V. – Corwin Press, 2006
The Report of the National Reading Panel (2000) explains that phonemic awareness instruction and phonics instruction are highly beneficial for students learning to read. In the updated second edition, Edmund V. Starrett provides educators with guidance on teaching phonics as part of a well-planned reading program. This reference book presents the…
Descriptors: Phonics, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Savage, Teresa – 1991
Noting that many parents who might teach their young children are often discouraged by a lack of information or fear of being labeled "pushy," this book provides parents with a step-by-step program for teaching preschoolers letters and numbers as a way of giving children a head start on formal education. The handbook consists of a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computation, Early Reading, Learning Activities