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Direct linkJohnston, Rhona S.; McGeown, Sarah; Watson, Joyce E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
A comparison was made of 10-year-old boys and girls who had learnt to read by analytic or synthetic phonics methods as part of their early literacy programmes. The boys taught by the synthetic phonics method had better word reading than the girls in their classes, and their spelling and reading comprehension was as good. In contrast, with analytic…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Spelling, Phonics, Females
Johnston, Rhona S.; Watson, Joyce E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
In Experiment 1, it was found that 5-year-old new school entrants taught by a synthetic phonics method had better reading, spelling and phonemic awareness than two groups taught analytic phonics. The synthetic phonics children were the only ones that could read by analogy, and they also showed better reading of irregular words and nonwords. For…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Spelling, Phonemes, Beginning Reading
