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Piasta, Shayne B.; Petscher, Yaacov; Justice, Laura M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Review of current federal and state standards indicates little consensus or empirical justification regarding appropriate goals, often referred to as benchmarks, for preschool letter-name learning. The present study investigated the diagnostic efficiency of various letter-naming benchmarks using a longitudinal database of 371 children who attended…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Preschool Children, Benchmarking, Prediction
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Neuman, Susan B.; Kaefer, Tanya; Pinkham, Ashley; Strouse, Gabrielle – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Targeted to children as young as 3 months old, there is a growing number of baby media products that claim to teach babies to read. This randomized controlled trial was designed to examine this claim by investigating the effects of a best-selling baby media product on reading development. One hundred and seventeen infants, ages 9 to 18 months,…
Descriptors: Infants, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Experimental Groups
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Byrne, Brian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
A study of acquisition of the alphabetic principle in 64 preliterate children, aged 3 to 5 years, is reported. It appears that phonemic awareness and grapheme-phoneme knowledge are needed in combination for acquisition of the alphabetic principle. Once gained, alphabetic insight proved relatively robust. (TJH)
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Knowledge Level, Language Acquisition, Learning