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Ying Jiang; Xiaosong Gai; Xue Han; Ying Cui – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Phonics instruction, originating in English-speaking countries, has gained considerable momentum in China, both within and beyond formal classroom settings. Despite its popularity, certain limiting factors arise when implementing phonics instruction for native Chinese speakers. These factors include the lack of prior exposure to lexical…
Descriptors: Phonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Preston, Teresa – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Reading instruction has been the subject of significant controversy for more than five decades, and Kappan has allowed advocates of many different types of reading instruction to make their cases in the magazine's pages. Teresa Preston chronicles the history of the reading wars as they played out in Kappan. Researchers and scholars have debated…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Phonics, Reading Strategies, Whole Language Approach
Iwalani Dela Paz-Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Reading skills are important for students' academic success. Phonics specifically is a foundational skill which is necessary for reading fluency and overall reading proficiency. Additional support outside of the classroom can be beneficial for those struggling and at-risk. There are various strategies and interventions that can help student's gain…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Intervention
Rachel Schechter; Rachel Gross – Online Submission, 2024
This study explored the impact of the 95 Phonics Core Program® (95 PCP) on student literacy achievement across third graders who started the school year at different ability levels. The primary focus of this report was to investigate the relationship between changes in phonics scores with the beginning and end-of-year i-Ready® assessments and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Phonics, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Amber Lawson – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Young children of Color from minoritized communities can co-author decodable stories using phonics skills they have been taught, their lived experiences, and home languages, including nondominant English languages, to develop decoding skills using student-generated decodable readers. While traditional and curricular decodable readers are used…
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Instruction, Decoding (Reading), Urban Schools
Caron, Jessica; Light, Janice; McNaughton, David – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
Individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are often excluded from learning literacy skills that use phonological approaches due to challenges with verbal production of speech sounds. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of systematic literacy instruction with materials modified to teach letter-sound…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Program Effectiveness, Literacy Education
Ehr, Linnea C. – American Educator, 2023
In elementary school, an important goal of reading instruction is to enable children to read most words automatically by sight so that they can focus on learning from and enjoying what they are reading. But becoming a strong reader takes several years. Parents and caregivers need to know if a child is making good progress in learning to read.…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Spelling, Children
Caroline R. van der Mescht – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: The context of this research is reading literacy instruction in Foundation Phase classrooms in South Africa. Although large-scale studies have researched learner performance, little is known of the nuances of teachers' practice, particularly in the non-verbal realm. This research seeks to address that gap. Aim: This research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Grade 1, Elementary School Teachers
Wiley Blevins – Corwin, 2024
Author Wiley Blevins is renowned for changing the way educators think about teaching children to read, helping thousands of teachers implement effective phonics instruction. Now, Blevins gets us to think in powerful new ways about differentiating whole-class phonics lessons, so students at every skill level can engage. With Blevins' trademark…
Descriptors: Phonics, Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Large Group Instruction
Barnes, Naomi – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
This paper provides an overview of the Reading Wars as a site of discursive struggle. Using a digital sociological account of online events associated with the 2018 Phonics Debate hosted by the Australian Centre for Educational Research and the think tank the Centre for Independent Studies, this paper works to illuminate and challenge contemporary…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Phonics, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries
Dilgard, Cortney; Hodges, Tracey S. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2022
Phonics and fluency instruction are primarily viewed as elementary-centric skills that do not have a place in middle school, which may neglect the usefulness this type of instruction provides to older students. Literacy centers are one method for successfully teaching these skills in a middle school setting. The purpose of this paper is to provide…
Descriptors: Learning Resources Centers, Literacy Education, Phonics, Reading Fluency
Doll, William J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine current kindergarten teacher understandings of early phonics instruction and how teachers are meeting readers' early phonics needs during guided reading instruction. Using Vygotsky's (1979) social constructivist theory and Ehri's (1995) connectionist theory and by focusing on age-appropriate instruction,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Hammond, Alexandra – Research-publishing.net, 2022
St George's Primary, in Battersea, south London, began using Sounds-Write in 2011. Alexandra Hammond, current Key Stage 1 and Phonics Lead, presents spelling test data to illustrate progress and achievement for a group of twenty students from Year 1 to Year 6. [For the complete volume, "Systematic Synthetic Phonics: Case Studies from Sounds…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Religious Schools
Young-Suk Grace Kim; Jonathan Stern; Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Longitudinal data from the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS I) in South Africa (N = 4538) were used to examine the role of instructional contexts in the relations of literacy skills between children's home language (L1 Setswana) and a second language (L2 English). All children received literacy instruction in Setswana in Grades 1 to 3. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Elementary School Students, Native Language Instruction
Olson, Kristen; Smyth, Jolene D. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
Questionnaire design texts commonly recommend emphasizing important words, including capitalization or underlining, to promote their processing by the respondent. In self-administered surveys, respondents can see the emphasis, but in an interviewer-administered survey, emphasis has to be communicated to respondents through audible signals. We…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Speech Communication, Phonics, Intonation