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Kim, Young-Suk; Petscher, Yaacov; Foorman, Barbara R.; Zhou, Chengfu – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
In the present study, we investigated critical factors in letter-sound acquisition (i.e., letter-name knowledge and phonological awareness) with data from 653 English-speaking kindergartners in the beginning of the year. We examined (a) the contribution of phonological awareness to facilitating letter-sound acquisition from letter names and (b)…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness
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Byrne, Brian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
A program to teach young children about phonological structure was evaluated with 64 experimental group and 62 control group preschoolers in Australia. Results support the efficacy of the program and the principle that phonological awareness and letter knowledge are necessary but not sufficient for acquisition of the alphabetic principle. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups