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Grant, Amy; Wood, Eileen; Gottardo, Alexandra; Evans, Mary Ann; Phillips, Linda; Savage, Robert – NHSA Dialog, 2012
The current study developed a taxonomy of reading skills and compared this taxonomy with skills being trained in 30 commercially available software programs designed to teach emergent literacy or literacy-specific skills for children in preschool, kindergarten, and Grade 1. Outcomes suggest that, although some skills are being trained in a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Best Practices, Classification
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Savage, Robert; Carless, Sue – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Phonological awareness is known to be an excellent predictor of later reading acquisition. It remains unclear, however, whether phoneme manipulation alone best explains this association or whether an additional direct contribution of onset-rime awareness is predictive. This issue is explored here. Method: A longitudinal study is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Phonemes, Early Reading