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Download full textMinus, Molly E. – 1992
A study examined the relation between phonemic awareness and reading across the full range of decoding abilities in adults; determined if phonemic awareness can be taught to low-literate adults in one 45-minute session; and determined the effect of phonemic awareness training on the acquisition of decoding skills by low-literate and illiterate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Decoding (Reading), Instructional Effectiveness
Murray, Bruce – 1994
A survey of the training literature on phoneme awareness suggests that help for slower readers comes in the form of a focus on phonemes through stretched sounding and phoneme isolation in a careful progression that considers the number and choice of phonemes and position in syllables. Stretching and isolating phonemes allows beginners to explore…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Models, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Werker, Janet F.; And Others – 1985
Two studies were conducted to determine whether the consonant errors displayed by readers with severe reading disabilities are the result of phonetic rather than visual substitutions. In the first study, the reading and spelling performance of three groups of readers with average IQs but with reading levels two years below grade level, was…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Decoding (Reading)
Biggins, Catherine M.; Sainz, JoAnn – 1997
The Easy Steps to Reading Independence (ESTRI) Program is a reading program to be used to support whole language or basal reader programs by enabling limited ability or non-readers to begin reading, or to remediate reading disabilities, at age and grade appropriate levels immediately, without requiring the students to know sight words before…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Reading Difficulties
Freppon, Penny A. – 1989
A study was conducted to shed light on the influence which children's developmental stage in learning to read and the reading instruction they receive have on first-graders' reading concepts. The study provided descriptive information to answer the following questions: (1) Do children from literature-based and skill-based instructional settings…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Graphemes
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1985
Focusing on research about children's acquisition of reading and spelling skills, this paper discusses the larger picture of reading acquisition, issues addressed by research, and results of this research. The paper cites numerous studies on the subject, including studies on whether environmental print experiences enable young children to process…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading, Elementary Education
Ceprano, Maria A. – 1987
Designed to add to the existing knowledge base concerning the saliency of features used by children to identify isolated words, a study examined whether the method of instruction influences the extent to which various features are used for word identification and recall. Subjects, 117 kindergarten students from a suburban Buffalo, New York, school…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Behavior Patterns, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
