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Download full textFitzsimmons, Mary K. – 1998
This digest summarizes what is known about teaching the processes of phonological awareness and word recognition. It finds unequivocal research evidence that students who enter first grade with phonological awareness skills are more successful readers and urges explicit instruction in these skills. Examples of phonological awareness activities and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Educational Research, Phonology
