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Direct linkWood, Eileen; Gottardo, Alexandra; Grant, Amy; Evans, Mary Ann; Phillips, Linda; Savage, Robert – NHSA Dialog, 2012
As computers become an increasingly ubiquitous part of young children's lives there is a need to examine how best to harness digital technologies to promote learning in early childhood education contexts. The development of emergent literacy skills is 1 domain for which numerous software programs are available for young learners. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Early Childhood Education
Blair, Rebecca; Savage, Robert – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
This paper reports a study exploring the associations between measures of two levels of phonological representation: recognition (epi-linguistic) and production (meta-linguistic) tasks, and very early reading and writing skills. Thirty-eight pre-reading Ottawa-area children, aged 4-5 years, named environmental print (EP), wrote their own name,…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Word Recognition, Reading Skills, Foreign Countries
Savage, Robert; Carless, Sue – Educational Research, 2005
Evidence suggests that phonic interventions delivered by trained researchers improve early reading and spelling. This study sought to explore whether school Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) can also improve performance using these methods. Four groups (each of n=27) of the poorest reading 6-year-old children in nine schools were screened and…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Phonetics, Intervention
