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Powell, Douglas R.; Diamond, Karen E.; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Koehler, Matthew J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Effects of a 1-semester professional development (PD) intervention that included expert coaching with Head Start teachers were investigated in a randomized controlled trial with 88 teachers and 759 children. Differential effects of technologically mediated (remote) versus in-person (on-site) delivery of individualized coaching with teachers also…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, Disadvantaged Youth, Emergent Literacy
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Roberts, Theresa A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003
Examines the influence of letter-name instruction in beginning word recognition. Children who received letter-name instruction learned words phonetically spelled with letters included in instruction significantly better than other words. Children receiving comprehension instruction performed significantly better on visually distinct word…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Letters (Alphabet), Phonetics, Preschool Children
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Murray, Bruce A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998
Forty-eight kindergarten children were assigned to phoneme identity, phoneme manipulation, or language experience programs. Children in the manipulation program made greater gains in blending and segmentation, but children in the phoneme identity condition made greater gains on a test of phonetic cue reading. Implications for reading instruction…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Identification, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
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Byrne, Brian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Results of 6 experiments with 109 Australian preschool children favor training in phoneme identity over segmentation as a component of initial reading instruction because it is easier to implement and its relation to alphabetic insight is stronger. Implications for the initial reading curriculum are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries