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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"sight word"”.
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Phonemic awareness and sight word reading in toddlers
… emerging phonemic awareness skills and printed sight word recognition abilities in two-year-old toddlers using plain text and MorphoPhonic Face words on flash cards. MorphoPhonic Face words were used to determine if this learning process is enhanced when words are iconically represented to show …
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Teacher Knowledge and Beliefs Regarding Sight Word Development
… classroom teachers define, understand, and teach sight word development through an orthographic mapping lens. The study utilized a convergent parallel design to concurrently analyze, merge, and compare the quantitative online survey results of 624 teacher responses explicated alongside the …
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Implementation of Educational Games-based Instruction for Improving Sight Word Recognition
The implementation and selection of sight word instruction in classrooms has changed throughout the years, as educators seek to find the most effective and student-friendly ways to teach sight word recognition. Students’ ability to automatically and accurately read sight words plays a key role in …
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The Effects of Tutoring on Sight Word Gains of Primary Pupils
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The effect of the "20 Word Chant" on student sight word recall
… study was done to examine the effect of the 20 Word Chant on student's ability to recall sight words. The participants were from various backgrounds, ability levels, disabilities. The students were exposed to two presentation formats. The 20 Word Chant was added to the daily routine as well as …
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The effect of using the iPad to enhance sight word acquisition of students with autism
… spectrum disorders in their acquisition of sight words and (b) examine the social validity of using the iPad in the classroom. The participants were two 2nd and two 3rd graders diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Baseline data was collected by evaluating student progress of sight word …
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The Effect of Orthographic Mapping, Context, and Word Class on Sight Word Learning for Native and Nonnative English-Speakers
… not providing meanings, 3.) Does grammatical word class affect word learning, and 4.) Do these manipulations affect word learning differently in native and nonnative speakers? Additionally, this study investigated whether literacy and language skills predict the reading of words presented in …
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The effects on using ipads in teaching sight words to English Language Learners
… iPad technology to teach high frequency Dolch sight words, in terms of identification and application, to beginner English language learners (ELLs), and (b) evaluate satisfaction and motivation among participants in the use of iPads in sight word acquisition. The participants consisted of two …
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Frequency-based training in the acquisition and retention of reading skills in students with emotional and behavioral disorders
… in the acquisition and retention of Dolch words (sight word vocabulary) in students with emotional/ behavioral disorders. The study accounted for practice effects by yoking the number of timings run in the frequency building condition with the accuracy-only condition by staggering the …
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The Effects of Diagnostic and Prescriptive Reading Approaches on Students Diagnosed as Emotionally Disturbed
… included: phonological and phonemic awareness, sight word recognition, oral reading accuracy and passage comprehension. Assessment results that guided instructional planning for students with emotional distrubances demonstrated increases in the majority of dependent variables measured.
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The efficacy of assisted reading as a strategy for facilitating the reading success of adult disabled readers
… Treatments Design. The dependent measures were sight words learned, miscues, and achievement in word recognition and comprehension. The results indicated that, under the treatments, each participant achieved modest gains in general word recognition and comprehension. Sight word acquisition …
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Emergent literacy intervention in first grade struggling readers
… phonemic awareness, multisensory strategies for sight word recognition, and choosing culturally responsive text to build listening and retelling skills can impact struggling learners.</p>
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Building Fluency of Sight Words
Words surround us. Many words, classified as high frequency words, make up a large percentage of the text we encounter on a daily basis. Educators understand the importance of recognition, memorization, and comprehension of these high frequency words as it contributes to improved reading ability in …
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How Should Context-Dependent Words Be Taught to Beginning Readers?
… for teaching beginners to read context-dependent words. Two types of context-dependent words were taught: irregular past tense verbs and function words. The words were embedded either in scrambled contexts or in meaningful sentence contexts. Three different instructional conditions to teach the …
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Teaching Children to Decode Words: Connected Versus Segmented Phonation
… compared. Kindergartners who could not decode nonwords participated in the study, <em>N</em> = 38, <em>M</em> = 5.6 years. Segmented phonation, frequently used in synthetic phonics programs, taught students to convert graphemes to phonemes by breaking the speech stream (“sss – aaa – nnn”) before …
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Component Processes in the Predictors of Reading Achievement: Direct and Indirect Effects
… memory and processing speed. Each participant's sight word vocabulary, reading fluency, and reading comprehension were collected to represent reading achievement. Comprehension performance was not directly related to reading predictors but instead was indirectly influenced by sight vocabulary. …
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The impact of computer assisted instruction on sensory cognitive factors in literacy learning.
… control group. A portable keyboard computer with word processing capabilities was selected to deliver technology-enhanced instruction. Results from this study suggest that activities designed to specifically promote processing in one sensory modality, do not promote acquisition of skills in other …
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Struggling Readers and Dyslexic Readers: A Comparative Study of Student Intervention Files
… awareness skills, decoding skills (including sight word recognition, decoding, and fluency), and encoding skills. Content analysis of parent responses to multiple-choice prompts found all parents sought clinical reading intervention because of their children’s struggles with decoding. In …