Letter sound knowledge, which, together with phonological awareness, is highly predictive of pre-school children's reading acquisition, derives from children's knowledge of their associated letter names and the phonological patterns of those names. In this study of 66 monolingual pre-school children we examined whether phonological patterns…

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 created the Reading First program to help ensure that all students could read at or above grade level by the end of grade 3. The program promotes practices recommended by the National Reading Panel for early reading instruction, highlighting essential components of reading instruction. As required by the…

Modern primary teachers must adapt literacy programmes and ensure efficient learning for all. They must also support children with language and literacy difficulties, children learning English as an additional language and possibly teach a modern foreign language. To do this effectively, they need to understand the applied linguistics research…

"The Electric Company" ("TEC") television show won the hearts of children because it made learning fun. Thirty years later, the iconic show has returned with the goal of not only teaching literacy, but also numeracy (the ability to work with and understand numbers) and mathematics vocabulary in a fun, entertaining, and engaging…

Discusses a number of current documents that reflect the renewed role of phonics in beginning reading instruction. (TO)

Article provided general guidelines for beginning with a particular learning objective and bringing resources together to teach and reinforce a skill or a concept. (Author/RK)

The study involving 36 learning disabled elementary students investigated a data based model of remedial phonics instruction which incorporated such principles as providing focus, teaching for mastery, distributing practice, training for discrimination, and emphasizing strategies for transfer. Ss, drawn from special education classes or clinics,…

THE STATUS OF TEACHERS' VOWEL PHONICS COMPETENCIES SINCE THE PERIOD 1957-58, THE REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE OF VOWEL PHONICS GENERALIZATIONS, AND TEACHERS' UNDERSTANDING OF THESE GENERALIZATIONS WERE INVESTIGATED. THE ARRON VOWEL PHONICS TEST WAS ADMINISTERED TO 198 GRADUATE STUDENTS AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, CORVALLIS, OREGON,…

A discussion of several shortcomings of phonics instruction is aimed at aiding teachers in avoiding such pitfalls as (1) following just one method of phonics instruction whether or not it is helpful to children, (2) treating all children alike and teaching them all the same phonetic elements at the same time, (3) continuing an approach regardless…

Three hundred children from two metropolitan areas were studied for 1 year to determine (1) the relationship between letter-name knowledge and reading success, (2) the relationship between letter-name learning and phonic learning, and (3) the ease and efficiency of vowel identification. The study concluded that the sooner a child learns the letter…

When 23 commonly taught phonics rules were analyzed in terms of consistency and complexity, it was determined that only nine appeared to be useful. (Includes a table showing the consistency of the generalizations.) (HOD)

With the exploration approach, children learn by doing--not by rote. (Editor)

Suggests that children should be taught to blend isolated sounds into words as an aid to reading. (MKM)