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Kim, Young-Suk; Petscher, Yaacov; Foorman, Barbara R.; Zhou, Chengfu – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
In the present study, we investigated critical factors in letter-sound acquisition (i.e., letter-name knowledge and phonological awareness) with data from 653 English-speaking kindergartners in the beginning of the year. We examined (a) the contribution of phonological awareness to facilitating letter-sound acquisition from letter names and (b)…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness
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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