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Campbell, Stacey; Torr, Jane; Cologon, Kathy – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2012
Commercial phonics programmes (e.g. Jolly Phonics and Letterland) are becoming widely used in the early years of school. These programmes claim to use a systematic explicit approach, considered as the preferred method of phonics instruction for teaching alphabetic code-breaking skills in Australia and the UK in the first years of school…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Phonics
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Cologon, Kathy; Cupples, Linda; Wyver, Shirley – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
This research evaluated the effectiveness of reading instruction targeting oral reading and phonological awareness for children with Down syndrome (affecting chromosome 21). The participants were 7 children ranging in age from 2 years, 11 months to 10 years, 8 months. Each child acted as his/her own control, with assessments of language,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Phonological Awareness, Oral Reading, Phonics