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Di Stasio, Maria Rosaria; Savage, Robert; Abrami, Philip C. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
This paper reports the follow-up of a randomised control trial study of the ABRACADABRA web-based literacy intervention that contrasted synthetic versus analytic phonics (Comaskey, Savage & Abrami, 2009) in kindergarten children from urban low-SES backgrounds. Participants who received a "synthetic" phonics+phoneme awareness training (n = 26) or…
Descriptors: Intervention, Kindergarten, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
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Holliman, Andrew J.; Wood, Clare; Sheehy, Kieron – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
In this cross-sectional study, we explore the relationship between prosodic sensitivity (suprasegmental phonology) and phonological awareness (segmental phonology) and investigate whether a group of poor readers display significant suprasegmental phonological deficits in comparison to chronological age-matched controls and younger, reading…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Age, Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness