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Kelly Hackett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative exploratory causal-comparative study investigated the relationship between public and private K-3 schoolteachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge and instructional practices of phonemic awareness and phonics, the two best predictors of reading comprehension proficiency. Gough and Tunmer's (1986) Simple View of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness
Rachel Schechter; Anna Robinson; Isabella Ilievski – Online Submission, 2024
In a study examining the efficacy of Heggerty's Bridge to Reading program during the 2023-2024 school year, LXD Research measured the program's impact on kindergarten and first-grade students' reading outcomes on the NWEA MAP Reading Fluency assessment. Results indicated that first graders using the program demonstrated significantly greater…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Beginning Reading
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Semingson, Peggy; Kerns, William – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In this historical analysis, we examine the context of debates over the role of phonics in literacy and current debates about the science of reading, with a focus on the work and impact of the late literacy scholar Jeanne Chall. We open by briefly tracing the roots of the enduring debates from the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on beginning…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Phonics, Literacy, Beginning Reading
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Nakeva von Mentzer, C.; Kalnak, N.; Jennische, M. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Children with Down syndrome (DS) using intensive computer-based phonics (GraphoGame, GG) were studied. The children's independence and improvement in phonological processing, letter knowledge, word decoding, and reading strategies were investigated. Seventeen children (5-16 years) with DS participated in a crossover design through 8 weeks (one…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Phonics, Down Syndrome, Alphabets
Duke, Nell K.; Mesmer, Heidi Anne E. – American Educator, 2019
The need to explicitly teach letter-sound relationships in U.S. classrooms is settled science. However, too often such instruction is not provided in the most efficient or effective way. These instructional missteps mean that fewer children will develop strong word-reading skills. In addition, ineffective phonics instruction is likely to require…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Alphabets, Reading Instruction
Noam Angrist; Sarah Kabay; Dean Karlan; Lincoln Lau; Kevin Wong – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Children spend most of their time at home in their early years, yet efforts to promote human capital at home in many low- and middle-income settings remain limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention which encourages parents and caregivers to foster human capital accumulation among their children between ages 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation
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Bridget Letuzinger; Derek B. Rodgers; Mackenzie E. Savaiano – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
The current study examined the effectiveness of a reading curriculum of explicit instruction on the letter-sound knowledge of a sample of elementary-aged students with Down syndrome. The procedures were adapted from prior research (King et al., 2020; Lemons et al., 2018; Lemons et al., 2015). Three participants between 9 and 11 years old…
Descriptors: Phonics, Spelling Instruction, Down Syndrome, Intervention
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K. Lea Alexander – Reading Teacher, 2024
More and more students with learning disabilities and other diverse learners are placed for instruction in general education classrooms, which often leaves teachers grappling to design successful peer interactions and literacy activities to meet the needs of all learners in their classrooms. As the shift is made to align literacy instruction to…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Literacy Education, Inclusion
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Bates, Katherine – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
Debates about teaching reading have long been a part of educational vernacular, frequently reduced to polarised views about phonics. This attention can unnecessarily divert from the cumulative skills required for learning to read and comprehensive research, which indicates the positive influence of systematic phonics instruction on students'…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Phonics
Sarah St. John – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative phenomenological dissertation in practice explored teacher perspectives of the Texas Reading Academies required by the state of Texas. Students at an elementary school in Texas were performing below grade level expectations in reading. Although teachers were required to complete the Texas Reading Academies, based on the data…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Legislation, Reading, State Legislation
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Carter, Jane – Literacy, 2020
The phonics screening check (PSC) was introduced in England in 2012 for children in Year 1. There have been criticisms in relation to its reliability and appropriateness as an assessment tool for early reading although supporters of the PSC see it as a valuable tool in securing progress in reading. The DfE-funded evaluation concluded, however,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Phonics, Screening Tests
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Anna Shapiro; Laura Bellows – RAND Corporation, 2025
Improving the reading achievement of U.S. students is a long-standing challenge, and there is a growing recognition that some prevalent methods of early reading instruction might be drivers of low reading achievement. In response to low reading test scores and an increasing body of scientific knowledge on how young children learn to read--the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Public Schools, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
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Thoma, Jennifer – Journal of Education, 2021
This pilot study was an explanatory mixed-methods design to examine whether teachers changed instructional practices after adopting a new curriculum material to support the response to intervention (RTI) framework. In coordination with one rural school district which had implemented instructional intervention practices, the researcher observed…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Such, Christopher – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2021
The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools. Teaching children to read is one of the most important tasks in primary education and classroom practice needs to be underpinned by a secure foundation of knowledge. Teachers need to know what reading entails, how children…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
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Smith, Kelli; Shelley, Tami; Higgins, Pam – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
The demand for confident reading teachers is greater than ever before. To guarantee successful reading instruction, teachers across the nation are being trained in the science of reading, which focuses on explicit instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Large reading initiatives are tirelessly working on…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Direct Instruction
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