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Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Nuspl, Janae J.; Wilkerson, Kimberly; Beddes, Sarah Rose – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: Preschooler instruction for speech sound awareness typically teaches a progression of speech units from sentences to phonemes, ending at simple first phoneme activities. This study investigates the effects of teaching advanced tasks of phoneme blending and segmenting with and without the larger speech unit of the syllable. Method:…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Sentences, Syllables, Phonemic Awareness
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McGee, Lea M.; Ukrainetz, Teresa A. – Reading Teacher, 2009
While much research and many curricula have surfaced for teaching phonemic awareness to young learners, we worked with preschool and kindergarten teachers who were frustrated with some children they found hard to teach. Many children easily grasped the instruction provided to them, but others were not catching on even when using suggestions…
Descriptors: Phonemics, Phonemic Awareness, Kindergarten, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Ukrainetz, Teresa A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
This article reviews the evidence pertaining to intensity for phonemic awareness intervention for preschoolers and kindergartners with language impairment. The nature of phonemic awareness instruction is considered, including which phonemic awareness skills should be explicitly taught, how to structure these skills into teaching episodes, and how…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Impairments, Reading Achievement, Phonemic Awareness
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Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Ross, Catherine L.; Harm, Heide M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: This study examined 2 schedules of treatment for phonemic awareness. Method: Forty-one 5- to 6-year-old kindergartners, including 22 English learners, with low letter-name and first-sound knowledge received 11 hr of phonemic awareness treatment: concentrated (CP, 3x/wk to December), dispersed (DP, 1x/wk to March), and dispersed vocabulary…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, At Risk Students, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Cooney, Margaret H.; Dyer, Sarah K.; Kysar, Aimee J.; Harris, Trina J. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000
Examined impact of teaching phonemic awareness by embedding sound talk within meaningful literacy experiences of shared reading and writing in small groups of 5- and 6-year-olds 3 times weekly for 7 weeks. Found that this instruction led to gains in phonemic awareness compared to no treatment. Treatment-specific improvement was evident for first…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness