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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"phonics skills"”.
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An investigation of kindergarten teachers' reports of reading practices
… in the areas of phonemic awareness and phonics. The survey instrument used in the study was developed by the researcher. A pilot study was conducted to gather feedback about ways to increase the surveys’ clarity. The following four research questions guided the study: 1) what general RTI …
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Dr. Suess in the Classroom: Building the Phonemic Awareness of Kindergarten Students
… phonological awareness, focusing on the rhyming skills of kindergarten students. The value of Dr. Seuss’ children’s literature, which is renown for rhyming, repetition and predictable structures, has not been accredited in reading curriculums or included in formal instruction when developing …
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The Relationship Between English Language Learners' Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills
… via the Results blending, segmenting, and basic phonics skills test (California Reading & Literature Project, 2001). The ELLs showed stronger correlations than the non-ELLs. This study concluded that phonemic awareness has a stronger relationship to decoding in ELLs than in non-ELLs.</p>
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Partner Reading: A Constructivist Based Approach to Developing Reading Skills in the Elementary Grades
… The basal method placed a heavy emphasis on phonics skills, scope and sequence, and presentation of material in a teacher centered manner. A dependent t test used to analyze the scores indicated that there was no significant difference between the two reading approaches. These results suggest …
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A Content Analysis of Reading Software Commercially Available for Pre-K to 3rd Grade Children.
… programs offered exercised for practicing basic phonics skills; the alphabetic principle, letter-sound association, word knowledge, sentence building, and reading comprehension. Depending on the software developers, phonics-based practice was presented in two ways; separate skill-based practice …
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Theoretical Orientations to Reading and Reading Instructional Practices of Selected Home-Education Parents in Southwest Michigan
… placed in one or more of the three categories: phonics, skills, and whole language.</p> <p>Results. The TORP indicated that 51 of the parents held the skills orientation; 27 held the phonics orientation; and no parent held a whole language orientation. Using the CATTOR to analyze the …
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A Case Study: The Effects of Intervention on a Struggling First-Grade Reader
… progress was monitored using the Beginning Phonics Skills Test (BPST) (Shefelbine, 1996) and the CORE Phoneme Segmentation Test (CORE, 1999). The results revealed that the student was unable to segment phonemes and was lacking knowledge of digraphs. Behavior data collected revealed that the …
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Component Processes in the Predictors of Reading Achievement: Direct and Indirect Effects
… sample of poor readers. However, working memory skills were closely related to sight vocabulary performance and support the hypothesis that memory affects long-term word associations. Processing speed was found to directly influence rapid naming, sight vocabulary, and reading fluency. It did not …