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Download full textThwaite, Anne; Adam, Helen; Urquhart, Yvonne; Hill, Susan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Pre-service teachers (PSTs) need sound Knowledge About Language (KAL), both for their own professional communication and for their teaching practice. In the longer term, enhanced KAL will benefit our graduates in their implementation of the Australian Curriculum. This paper reports on work with First Year PSTs at one Australian university. We…
Descriptors: Phonology, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Literacy
Direct linkClark, Margaret M. – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2019
In this article, two government education policies for primary schools in England are scrutinised, the Phonics Screening Check and Baseline Assessment, both claimed by ministers to be 'evidence based'. What has become a high-stakes test rather than a diagnostic assessment, the Phonics Screening Check, introduced in 2012, now dominates early years…
Descriptors: Public Officials, Educational Policy, Elementary School Students, Phonics
Glavach, Matthew; Pribyl, Warren – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2018
The study presents a reading intervention for children having a variety of reading deficits. For this study it was found that most of the children had not responded positively to phonics instruction. Based on brain imaging studies, it has been shown that there are positive changes in the left brains of readers with dyslexia who receive phonemic…
Descriptors: Whole Language Approach, Reading Instruction, Language Rhythm, Phonics
McNally, Sandra; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer; Rolfe, Heather – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
Abracadabra (ABRA) is a 20-week online literacy program composed of phonic fluency and comprehension activities based around a series of age-appropriate texts. Four 15-minute sessions per week are delivered by a teaching assistant (TA) to groups of three to five pupils. This report summarizes the findings of a randomized controlled trial assessing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Phonics, Reading Programs
Strauss, Steven L.; Altwerger, Bess – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
US government mandates to implement intensive phonics instruction in elementary classrooms invoke an alleged scientific superiority of this approach over more meaning-centered models. But curiously absent from this scientific enterprise is a study of the phonics system itself. Advocates of intensive phonics have not demonstrated that the commonly…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Phonics, Whole Language Approach, Reading Instruction
Mather, Nancy; Sammons, Janice; Schwartz, Jonathan – Reading Teacher, 2006
In 1990, Cunningham developed a Names Test as a quick and easy screening tool for teachers to obtain information about a student's decoding skills. In 1994, Duffelmeyer, Kruse, Merkley, and Fyfe added 10 names to the original Names Test and developed a comprehensive scoring matrix to increase diagnostic information from the test, based on error…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Beginning Reading, Reading Failure, Phonics
Jane Hurry; Andrew Holliman – Institute of Education - London, 2009
Reading Recovery is part of the Every Child a Reader strategy to enable children to make a good start in reading. Reading Recovery is well known to have impressive effects in the shorter term, but less is known about its long-term effectiveness. The present study followed up at the end of Year 4: 120 comparison children, 73 children who had…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Special Needs Students, Elementary School Students
Indiana Department of Education, 2006
The materials included in this manual are organized according to the Indiana's Kindergarten Academic Standards for English/Language Arts. In each section teachers will find: (1) Indiana's Kindergarten Academic Standards for English/Language Arts Assessments: Black Line Masters of diagnostic/practice pages for skill areas, checklists, and rubrics;…
Descriptors: Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Kindergarten
Indiana Department of Education, 2006
The materials included in this manual are organized according to the Indiana Grade 1 Academic Standards for English/Language Arts. In each section teachers will find: (1) Indiana Grade 1 Academic Standards for English/Language Arts; (2) Assessments: diagnostic/practice pages for skill areas, checklists, and rubrics; (3) Classroom Activities:…
Descriptors: Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Grade 1
Indiana Department of Education, 2006
The materials included in this manual are organized according to the Indiana Grade 2 Academic Standards for English/Language Arts. In each section teachers will find: (1) Indiana Grade 2 Academic Standards for English/Language Arts Assessment Tools: diagnostic/practice pages for skill areas, checklists, and rubrics; (2) Classroom Activities:…
Descriptors: Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Grade 2
