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The Foundations of Literacy: Learning the Sounds of Letters.
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Treiman, Rebecca; Tincoff, Ruth; Rodriguez, Kira; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Francis, David J. – Child Development, 1998
Two studies examined young children's knowledge of letters' sounds and names and preschoolers' ability to learn various sound-letter mappings. Findings indicated that an important determinant of letter-sound knowledge is whether the sound occurs in the name of the letter, and its location. Children used knowledge of letters' names when learning…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies, Letters (Alphabet), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
The Fragility of the Alphabetic Principle: Children's Knowledge of Letter Names Can Cause Them To Spell Syllabically Rather than Alphabetically.
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Treiman, Rebecca; Tincoff, Ruth – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Studied whether kindergartners and first graders spell a sequence of phonemes with the corresponding consonant letter rather than spelling the sequence alphabetically with a consonant letter followed by a vowel. Found that children made letter-name spelling errors, especially when the consonant and vowel formed a complete syllable, showing that…
Descriptors: Graphemes, Letters (Alphabet), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spelling