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Effect of an Instructional Program in Foundational Reading Skills on Early Literacy Development of Students in Kindergarten and First Grade
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Holly B. Lane; Valentina A. Contesse; Nicholas A. Gage; Matthew K. Burns – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Research has demonstrated the positive effects of systematically teaching phonemic awareness and phonics in kindergarten and first grade, but many commonly used reading curricula do not adequately incorporate these foundational skills. In this study, we examined the efficacy of an instructional program ("UFLI Foundations") in…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics
Instruction Influences Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Skills: Evidence from a Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial
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Young-Suk Grace Kim; Jonathan Stern; Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Longitudinal data from the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS I) in South Africa (N = 4538) were used to examine the role of instructional contexts in the relations of literacy skills between children's home language (L1 Setswana) and a second language (L2 English). All children received literacy instruction in Setswana in Grades 1 to 3. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Elementary School Students, Native Language Instruction
What's Hot in Literacy: Misguided Trends in a Divided Field
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Stephanie Grote-Garcia; Evan Ortlieb; Sergio Leiva Cardona – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2025
The annual "What's Hot in Literacy" survey identifies current priorities in literacy education, highlighting the evolving landscape of the field. A panel of twenty-five literacy leaders participate in interviews to identify the most emphasized, least emphasized, and most deserving topics of increased attention. The 2024 findings…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Educational Trends, Surveys