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Seymour, Dorothy Z. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Discusses the use of syllabication in teaching decoding to beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phonemes, Primary Education
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Neuman, Susan B. – Reading Improvement, 1981
Discusses the effectiveness of two techniques of teaching vowel knowledge--the vowel-in-isolation approach and the phonogram approach. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phonemes, Primary Education
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Treiman, Rebecca; And Others – Cognition, 1995
First graders listened to the pronunciation of single syllable nonsense words and were asked to spell the words. Results showed that, for nonsense words of the form consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant, in which the consonant following the vowel was a nasal or a liquid, children often omitted the second consonant in their spelling. (BC)
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
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Groff, Patrick – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
Reports on a study that examined the abilities of first and second grade pupils to read true and altered spellings of words they had either previously read correctly or had misnamed. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Greif, Ivo P. – 1977
Research has shown that the commonly taught phonics rule "a vowel in the middle of a one-syllable word is short" is accurate only 68% of the time, given that a single-syllable word has been correctly identified. A recent research endeavor, which analyzed 138,000 words listed in the "New Grolier Webster International Dictionary of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics
Bentz, Darrell; Szymczuk, Mike – 1981
A study was designed to investigate the auditory-visual integrative abilities of primary grade children for five long vowels and five short vowels. The Vowel Integration Test (VIT), composed of 35 nonsense words having all the long and short vowel sounds, was administered to students in 64 schools over a period of two years. Students' indications…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages