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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
McGeown, Sarah P.; Johnston, Rhona S.; Medford, Emma – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study examined the cognitive skills associated with early reading development when children were taught by different types of instruction. Seventy-nine children (mean age at pre-test 4;10 (0.22 S.D.) and post-test 5;03 (0.21 S.D.)) were taught to read either by an eclectic approach which included sight-word learning, guessing from context and…
Descriptors: Phonics, Early Reading, Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition
