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Direct linkMarie-France Morin; Loïc Pulido – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the verbal interventions produced by teachers to support pupils' development of orthographic knowledge through invented spelling in three research-based intervention conditions: conventional (C condition), proximal (P condition), and progressive complexification (PC condition). We recorded six…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Intervention, Teacher Student Relationship, Comparative Analysis
Murray, Bruce; Murray, Geralyn – Reading Improvement, 2019
Veteran teacher Rachel Harbison used vivid stories to involve kindergartners in sociodramatic play to motivate reading acquisition. Children learned through staged events that a mischievous Word Queen had planted "tricks" in the alphabet (i.e., the irregularities in English spelling) to prevent children from learning to read. The…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
Download full textGonzalez-Valenzuela, Maria-Jose; Martin-Ruiz, Isaias – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2020
The majority of research on the relationship between phonological awareness and written language focuses on demonstrating the influence of the former on the latter. However, the aim of this study is to analyse the effects of an Early Years written language programme on phonological awareness. The sample comprises 56 Spanish children aged 5-7 who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Young Children, At Risk Students
O'Leary, Robin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
The purpose of this experimental study was to examine the contribution of phoneme awareness training and orthography to the learning of new vocabulary words by partial alphabetic phase readers. Hypotheses included: Preschoolers taught to phonemically segment words with letters would outperform those trained without letters on an invented spelling…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Task Analysis, Memory
Treiman, Rebecca; Hulslander, Jacqueline; Olson, Richard K.; Willcutt, Erik G.; Byrne, Brian; Kessler, Brett – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
We examined the predictive value of early spelling for later reading performance by analyzing data from 970 U.S. children whose spelling was assessed in the summer following the completion of kindergarten (M age = 6 years; 3 months). The word reading performance of most of the children was then tested after the completion of Grade 1 (age 7;5),…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Spelling, Predictor Variables, Kindergarten
Doolittle, Martha; Hutchins, Shaun – Online Submission, 2018
This report summarizes Fall 2017 Texas Kindergarten Early Assessment (TX-KEA) results for Austin Independent School District (AISD) kindergarten students, examining those with or without prior AISD prekindergarten experience. Test domains summarized in the report include vocabulary, listening comprehension, blending, letter names, letter sounds,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Kindergarten, School Readiness, Screening Tests
Kosanovich, Marcia; Lee, Laurie; Foorman, Barbara – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
This Kindergarten Teacher's Guide provides information for kindergarten teachers on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It serves as a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade. Both guides present four…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Family Role, Reading Skills
Farran, Dale C.; Wilson, Sandra Jo – Peabody Research Institute, 2014
Results from a cluster randomized trial of the impact of the Tools of the Mind pre-kindergarten curriculum on preschoolers' achievement, self-regulation, and social behavior are reported. Sixty classrooms with four-year-old children (N=877) were assigned to implement either the Tools curriculum (N=32 classrooms; 498 children) or the usual pre-k…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Spelling, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Metacognition
Paige, David D. – Online Submission, 2017
The following manuscript is a review of research surrounding best practices for language and literacy development in children birth to age three. Part 1 of the review begins with the research on language acquisition beginning in utero, continuing through infancy and onto the emergence of speech. The review discusses the importance of language…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Capacity Building, Literacy, Primary Education
Horlyck, Stephanie; Reid, Amanda; Burnham, Denis – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
Does the intensification of what can be called "language-specific speech perception" around reading onset occur as a function of maturation or experience? Preschool 5-year-olds with no school experience, 5-year-olds with 6 months' schooling, 6-year-olds with 6 months' schooling, and 6-year-olds with 18 months' schooling were tested on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Primary Education
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Earobics"[R] is interactive software that provides students in pre-K through third grade with individual, systematic instruction in early literacy skills as students interact with animated characters. "Earobics[R] Foundations" is a version for pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and first graders. "Earobics[R]…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Research, Emergent Literacy, Computer Software
Starrett, Edmund V. – Corwin Press, 2006
The Report of the National Reading Panel (2000) explains that phonemic awareness instruction and phonics instruction are highly beneficial for students learning to read. In the updated second edition, Edmund V. Starrett provides educators with guidance on teaching phonics as part of a well-planned reading program. This reference book presents the…
Descriptors: Phonics, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
