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Cosgrove, Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research study was designed and conducted to evaluate the regular education teacher's perspective on the effective use of Project Read to adequately instruct spelling mastery at the first grade level. The Project Read curriculum is divided into three major strands including phonics, reading comprehension, and written expression. Project…
Descriptors: Affordances, Educational Benefits, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Bast, Jenna M. – Online Submission, 2013
Understanding phonics is an important part of a young student's ability in learning how to read. The problem is that there is no set system that teachers follow in teaching phonics skills. The purpose of this study is to discover the ways that first grade teachers teach phonics to their students to help promote students success in reading. The…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Reading Programs, Phonics, Grade 1
Williams, Jennifer S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In 2011, a small Midwestern school district referred an increasing number of 2nd-4th grade students, with reading problems due to phonetic and phonological awareness deficits, to the district's intervention team. Framed in Shulman's pedagogical content knowledge model and the International Dyslexia Association's phonological deficit theory of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten
Dakin, Alexandra B. – 1999
This study focuses on the effectiveness and advantages of using an explicit phonics based reading program in kindergarten through second grade. The methods of decoding words that teachers introduce to the beginning readers must prove to be effective in introducing and building reading skills. Most recent studies have revisited and concurred with…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics, Primary Education
Gifford, Myrna R.; Cochran, Judith A.; Graham, Glenn; Hudson, Lynne; Wiersma, William – 2001
During the 2000-2001 school year, an 18-month evaluation of Ohio's Phonics Demonstration Program (PDP) was conducted by the same evaluation team that had conducted a similar evaluation in 1997. In addition to evaluating phonics instruction in PDP schools, the evaluation also addressed the preparation of teachers for reading/phonics instruction in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Educational Practices, Longitudinal Studies
Long, Robert, Ed.; van Troyer, Gene, Ed.; Lane, Keith, Ed.; Swanson, Malcom, Ed. – 2000
These conference proceedings address the following six topics: (1) "Change and the Future" (e.g., English language education in Japan, sociolinguistics in Hong Kong, and Esperanto); (2) "Children and Language Education" (e.g. a short-term language immersion case study, virtual classrooms for bilingual students, and the role of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Audiotape Recordings, Bilingual Students, Childrens Literature