Learning to read is a vital foundation to becoming a literate, educated person. Reading offers opportunities for enjoyment, for increasing our knowledge of the world and for enhancing our imagination and creativity. It also gives people access to improved life chances – success or failure in becoming a reader is a strong indicator of future progress in school and beyond. Throughout the develope...

BACKGROUND Early, intensive phonological awareness and phonics training is widely held to be beneficial for children with poor phonological awareness. However, most studies have delivered this training separately from children's normal whole-class reading lessons. AIMS We examined whether integrating this training into whole class, mixed-ability reading lessons could impact on children with p...

CLINICAL QUESTION Would a child with fragile X syndrome benefit more from phonemic awareness and phonics instruction or whole-word training to increase reading skills? METHOD Systematic review. STUDY SOURCES PsycINFO. SEARCH TERMS Fragile X or Down Syndrome or Cognitive Impairment or Cognitive Deficit or Cognitive Disability or Intellectual Disorder or Intellectual Delay or Intellectual D...

Effects of two phonics courses on Chinese L1 EFL beginner readers’ knowledge of the English alphabetic principle were compared. Two groups of children with matched baselines received aphonics course designed with the gist of either the existing phonics practice within Taiwan’s Primary English education (the EPP) or the Revelational Phonics Approach (the RPA). Fundamental differences set the two...

We examined acquisition of grapheme-phoneme correspondences by 4 deaf and hard-of-hearing preschoolers using instruction from a curriculum designed specifically for this population supplemented by Visual Phonics. Learning was documented through a multiple baseline across content design as well as descriptive analyses. Preschoolers who used sign language and had average to low-average receptive ...

This monograph discusses research, theory, and practice relevant to how children learn to read English. After an initial overview of writing systems, the discussion summarizes research from developmental psychology on children's language competency when they enter school and on the nature of early reading development. Subsequent sections review theories of learning to read, the characteristics ...

Phonics is well established in the English-speaking world, but to date it has beenimplemented only a limited extent contexts where English foreign language.This study aimed evaluate appropriateness of phonics for developing literacy skills Spanishlearners English. An experimental pre-test – post-test design was used determine method’sadded value. The sample consisted two equivalent groups Spani...