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Peer reviewedReiner, Kathleen – Reading Teacher, 1998
Describes an action research project carried out by a kindergarten teacher as she incorporated phonemic awareness activities into the daily classroom routine. Discusses classroom activities, how she developed data collection processes, and how her data analysis showed systematic student growth in literacy and enthusiasm. (SR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedSeymour, Dorothy Z. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Discusses the use of syllabication in teaching decoding to beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phonemes, Primary Education
Peer reviewedYopp, Hallie Kay – Reading Teacher, 1995
Describes the Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation, which provides teachers with a tool for assessing children's phonemic awareness and identifying children who may experience difficulty in reading and spelling. Offers evidence of its reliability and validity, and discusses its use. (SR)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phonemes, Primary Education, Test Reliability
Peer reviewedMoustafa, Margaret; Maldonado-Colon, Elba – Reading Teacher, 1999
Reviews research on the question of how to best teach letter-sound correspondences in beginning reading instruction. Describes a new, child-friendly, research-based way of teaching letter-sound correspondences to English- and Spanish-speaking children, which is not only explicit, systematic, and extensive, but also context embedded and meaningful.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, English, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedMurray, Bruce A.; Lesniak, Theresa – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes letterbox lessons in which children learn the alphabetic code, spelling words by placing letters in boxes that show the number of phonemes in words, and later reading what they have spelled. Discusses materials, how to teach a letterbox lesson, and effectiveness of these lessons. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Decoding (Reading), Emergent Literacy
Peer reviewedRichgels, Donald J.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes an instructional activity (used with kindergarten students) called "What Can You Show Us?" which embeds phonemic awareness in quality, contextualized reading, and writing activities. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Kindergarten, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedGroff, Patrick J. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reports that after more than 50 years of argument as to whether children should be taught the names of letters as part of learning to read, American researchers have begun to suggest that letter name instruction and phonics instruction interact for better learning. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedWagstaff, Janiel M. – Reading Teacher, 1998
Describes how one kindergarten teacher developed self-monitoring and searching behaviors in her class of beginning readers. Describes an array of reading and writing activities that advanced students' phonemic awareness, letter-sound knowledge, and facility with reading and writing--learning that was proudly constructed with ownership shared…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Writing, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedOpitz, Michael F. – Reading Teacher, 1998
Offers a 69-item list of children's books published in 1996 or 1997 that are suitable for kindergarten and first-grade children in helping them develop phonemic awareness. Offers a letter to parents that describes some specific activities they can do at home that highlight phonemic awareness. Offers a parents' phonemic awareness observation…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Emergent Literacy, Learning Activities
