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Peer reviewedGroff, Patrick – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2001
Discusses whether or not beginning readers learn phonics best through instructional approaches that teach students to sound out letters, spell words, or combine the two. Concludes that caution is in order as experimental research assessing the effectiveness of each approach has yet to be conducted. Suggests, in the interim, instruction should be…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics
Peer reviewedOtto, Beverly White – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1993
Examines effectiveness of project designed to increase inner-city children's opportunities to interact with storybooks in their classrooms and at home. Finds that 75% of children interacted with storybooks at a higher level of emergent reading at the end of the project, and 10 of the 28 children attempted to track print at postassessment, whereas…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness
