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Jones, Cindy D.; Reutzel, D. Ray – Reading Psychology, 2012
This article describes a 2-year exploratory research study of alphabet knowledge instruction in 13 kindergarten classrooms in four at-risk urban schools. Based on insights for teaching from five evidence-based advantages that influence acquisition of letter names and sounds, instruction of letter names and sounds was enhanced to increase students'…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Discovery Learning, Reading Research, Longitudinal Studies
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Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Simmons, Deborah C. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2009
There is growing evidence of cross-language transfer in metalinguistic processes related to reading acquisition and development. In particular, phonological awareness is a requisite process that shares similarities across Spanish and English. Through explicit instruction and instructional design analyses, we propose principles to facilitate…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Instructional Design, Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness