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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
