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Gehsmann, Kristin M.; Mesmer, Heidi Anne – Reading Teacher, 2023
This article addresses the characteristics of learners in the emergent stage of literacy development and describes two instructional practices that facilitate the development of the alphabetic principle and concept of word in text.
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Phonological Awareness
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Tunmer, William E.; Hoover, Wesley A. – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2019
This article presents an overview of a conceptual framework designed to help reading professionals better understand what their students are facing as they learn to read in alphabetic writing systems. The US National Reading Panel (NRP) recommended five instructional components for improving reading outcomes but presented these instructional…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Reading Difficulties, Prevention, Reading Teachers
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Pullen, Paige Cullen; Lane, Holly B. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2016
Manipulative objects have long been an essential tool in the development of mathematics knowledge and skills. A growing body of evidence suggests using manipulative letters for decoding practice is an also an effective method for teaching reading, particularly in improving the phonological and decoding skills of students at risk for reading…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Learning Disabilities, Decoding (Reading), Reading Fluency
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McBride, Catherine Alexandra – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Some aspects of Chinese literacy development do not conform to patterns of literacy development in alphabetic orthographies. Four are highlighted here. First, semantic radicals are one aspect of Chinese characters that have no analogy to alphabetic orthographies. Second, the unreliability of phonological cues in Chinese along with the fact that…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Acquisition, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols
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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
Neuman, Susan B. – Early Childhood Today, 2006
One of the most important skills for children to develop in the kindergarten year is the recognition that letters and sounds are related. It is often called "the alphabetic principle"--the notion that speech sounds can be connected to letters in a predictable way. To grasp the alphabetic principle, children need to understand that: (1) letters…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Emergent Literacy, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Class Activities
Albert, Elaine – 1994
A reading instructor interested in reliving the experience of learning to read for the first time attempted to read "Androcles and the Lion" in Shavian Alphabet. The would-be reader of Shavian faces a page of hooks and slants completely unfamiliar, but there is no translation problem. As soon as the reader can pronounce out loud the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Primary Education
Electronic Education, 1984
Describes Dr. John Henry Martin's theory of how children can learn to write phonetically before learning to read and how this theory developed into a computer-based teaching system called "Writing to Read." A program evaluation by Martin and IBM is discussed, and a source is given for further information. (MBR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Theories, Microcomputers
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Sanocki, Thomas; Rose, Virginia – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1990
Describes a modified alphabet for beginning readers based on psychologies of reading and visual perception. The Graphophonic Alphabet (GP) is explained, motivations for modifying the alphabet are discussed, and possibilities for teaching phonics and second languages as well as reading with the GP and microcomputers are considered. (16 references)…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Microcomputers
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), 2004
Hannah is a Pacific island grade 1 teacher in a local village school. She teaches in her native Pacific language and has established a 90-minute daily literacy block in which she focuses on literacy-related activities. As Hannah begins to prepare for the year and map out her ideas, she is aware of the need to gather basic information on each of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Pacific Islanders
Atterman, Jennifer S. – 1997
The single most important task facing elementary school teachers today is teaching students to read by the end of third grade. Learning to read in those formative years is essential to develop the higher order thinking skills demanded in the older grades, when students are reading to learn. Beginning readers must be engaged in highly purposeful…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Letters (Alphabet), Literacy, Phonics
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Montessori, Mario M. – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses exercises enabling teachers to help 6-year-olds complete the path to total reading and spontaneous writing. The foundation of the exercises is to help children analyze words into sounds; relate the symbols of the alphabet with the sounds using sandpaper letters; and acquire the physical ability to reproduce the letters in writing. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Early Childhood Education