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Mano, Quintino R.; Kloos, Heidi – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2018
When learning to read, the developing mind is likely to cluster letters into frequency-based chunks. In the current study, the authors investigated the extent to which such chunking takes place among preschoolers (N = 54) by examining the association between sensitivity to subword orthographic regularity and preschooler age. A version of the…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Age Differences, Orthographic Symbols
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Norwalk, Kate E.; DiPerna, James C.; Lei, Pui-wa; Wu, Qiong – School Psychology Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether there are systematic differences in literacy skills among children from less-advantaged households, using latent profile analysis. Early reading skills were measured using the Early Arithmetic, Reading, and Learning Indicators (EARLI; DiPerna, Morgan, & Lei, 2007) literacy tasks.…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Young Children, Individual Characteristics, Reading Skills
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DiLorenzo, Kim E.; Rody, Carlotta A.; Bucholz, Jessica L.; Brady, Michael P. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
The authors explored "Itchy's Alphabet" as an innovative approach to teaching letter-sound connections through multisensory cues. This is the initial demonstration of this instructional method for increasing students' sublexical skills (letter identification, letter-sound knowledge, and phonological awareness). To examine the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Orthographic Symbols, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten
Rubinson, Laura E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
More than one third of American children cannot read at a basic level by fourth grade (Lee, Grigg, & Donahue, 2007) and those numbers are even higher for African American, Hispanic and poor White students (Boorman et al., 2007). These are alarming statistics given that the ability to read is the most basic and fundamental skill for academic…
Descriptors: Music, Reading Research, Early Reading, Phonemics
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Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Kwok, Oi-man; Zou, Yuanyuan; Johnson, Caitlin; Simmons, Deborah; Coyne, Michael D. – Journal of Special Education, 2011
This study examined the influences of problem behaviors on kindergarten reading outcomes and investigated the extent to which explicit, code-based reading instruction moderated those relations among 206 children identified as being at risk of reading difficulty. Children from the classrooms of 57 kindergarten teachers in 12 schools were randomly…
Descriptors: Intervention, Early Reading, Phonemics, Alphabets
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Shaw, Donita Massengill; Sundberg, Mary Lou – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2008
The setting of this study took place in an inner city. The purpose was to determine the effectiveness of a neurologically integrated approach in teaching 43 at-risk pre-first graders their letter sounds and formations during 45-50 hours of summer school. There were four sequential phases to teaching this alphabetic approach: imagery, auditory,…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Early Reading, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols
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Nag, Sonali – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
Acquisition of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity are processes that are central to early reading development in several languages. The language-specific characteristics of the alphasyllabaries ( Bright, 1996), however, challenge the constructs of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity as discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Early Reading, Phonemics, Dravidian Languages
Cadilla de Ruibal, Carmen Alicia – 1977
This Spanish language workbook is intended to help elementary school children learn the Spanish alphabet. Each page presents a letter of the alphabet, a number of Spanish words beginning with that letter, and pen and ink drawings illustrating some of the words. The drawings are suitable for coloring. (AMH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Reading, Illustrations, Initial Teaching Alphabet
Clay, Marie M. – 1979
The difficulties children face as they are learning to read is the focus of this book, which is a collection of children's work (drawings and handwriting), with statements exploring their implications. The introduction discusses the relationship between early writing and early reading, individual differences, the question of age norms, questions…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing
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Warner, Laverne; Weiss, Sara – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2005
This article explains the importance of alphabet books in early reading development. Alphabet books encourage literacy development in the following ways: (1) unlock the symbols of language; (2) connect knowledge to other sources; (3) provide book usage knowledge to young children; (4) complement children's enjoyment of books; and (5) aid early…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Early Reading, Young Children, Emergent Literacy