Multisensory Interactive Digital Text for English Phonics Instruction with Bilingual Beginning Readers

We investigated a technology-based tool for teaching English letter-sound correspondences with bilingual children learning phonologically and typologically distant languages: Chinese. expect that about print at the phoneme level may be particularly challenging, given children’s experience morphosyllabic language of This randomized-controlled study 90 kindergarteners examined effects an iPad-based supplementary reading program compared control condition. The See Word Reading® utilized picture-embedded cues phonics within lessons directed letter, word, text levels. Measures decoding, word reading, spelling were taken pretest, posttest, follow-up both groups. Results showed better gains in group, indicating positive impact this tool. Further, data collected online from app different types pairings more challenging to learn, including are inconsistent phonemes specific English.