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O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Bocian, Kathleen; Beebe-Frankenberger, Margaret; Linklater, Danielle L. – Journal of Special Education, 2010
For children with language challenges, little is known about effective early reading interventions, because most studies have used language scores as exclusionary criteria. We randomly assigned 78 kindergartners with poor language skills to small group reading interventions that included phonemic awareness, alphabetic understanding, and oral…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Reading, Phonemics, Oral Language
Walter, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Students entering school with little knowledge of English do not have the foundation in place to develop reading skills. This lack of foundation puts English Learners at a disadvantage that they struggle to overcome. The purpose of the quantitative study was twofold: (a) to determine whether measures of phonemic awareness are predictive of end of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Intervention, Early Reading, Phonology
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Baker, Bettina – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2007
The purpose of this report is to provide education professors teaching early literacy methods courses with information for beginning teachers to support struggling first-grade readers. This analysis identifies the specific word structures children are expected to know by the end of first grade, and shows the actual learning rates of these…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Programs