scholarly journals Acquisition of Letter Naming Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, and Spelling Knowledge of Kindergarten Children at Risk for Learning to Read

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Paige ◽  
William H. Rupley ◽  
Grant S. Smith ◽  
Crystal Olinger ◽  
Mary Leslie
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Urban School District ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Spelling Development ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Letter Naming

This study measures letter naming, phonological awareness, and spelling knowledge in 2,100 kindergarten students attending 63 schools within a large, urban school district. Students were assessed across December, February, and May of the kindergarten year. Results found that, by May, 71.8% of students had attained full letter naming knowledge. Phonological awareness emerged more slowly with 48% of students able to reliably segment and blend phonemes in words. Spelling development, a measure of phonics knowledge, found that, by May, 71.8% of students were in the partial-alphabetic phase. A series of regression analyses revealed that by the end of kindergarten both letter naming and phonological awareness were significant predictors of spelling knowledge (b = .332 and .518 for LK and PA, resp.), explaining 52.7% of the variance.

scholarly journals Alphabetic Knowledge and Phonological Awareness : A comparison between Malaysian Preschool Children from Public and Private Kindergartens

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Joanna Joo Ying Wang ◽  
Julia Ai Cheng Lee
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Phonological Processing ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Letter Naming ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Comprehensive Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Alphabetic Knowledge

Alphabetic knowledge and phonological awareness are essential skills in learning to read. This research examined the level of acquisition on alphabetic knowledge and phonological awareness among 60 preschoolers from private and public preschools in Kuching, Sarawak. The mean age of the children was 5.58. The children were administered letter name and sound knowledge, and letter naming fluency tests to examine their alphabetic knowledge; Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing and Yopp-Singer Phoneme Segmentation Test to examine their phonological awareness. Higher achievement in alphabetic knowledge and phonological awareness was found among preschoolers from private preschools compared to those from public preschools. This study discusses the implications for practice and the ways teachers could explicitly foster alphabetic knowledge and phonological awareness skills in the classroom. Keywords: learning to read, alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness, preschool children.

Evaluating a Technique for Improving Letter Memory in At-Risk Kindergarten Students

2014 ◽  
pp. 355-372
Author(s):  
Carol Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
Color Naming ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Letter Naming

This chapter focuses on a process for improving letter naming. Numerous studies have established the correlation between fluent letter naming and reading in young children (Badian, 2000; Catts, 2001; Faust, Dimitrovsky, & Shacht, 2003; Terepocki, Kruk, & Willows, 2002; Mann & Foy, 2003). Two schools using the same reading program were selected for the study. The 125 kindergarten children attending these schools were screened for letter naming fluency. The low scoring individuals in each school were randomly assigned either to a treatment or control group for the study. Pretesting addressed rapid letter recall, color naming, object naming, and receptive vocabulary. The children in the treatment groups received twelve twenty-minute instructional sessions teaching the children to attend to the distinctive features (unique parts) of each letter. The students in the treatment groups made significant gains in letter naming speed and accuracy compared to the control groups. Receptive language scores improved. Other measures had no significant correlation with letter naming proficiency in posttests.

scholarly journals The Use of a Dynamic Screening of Phonological Awareness to Predict Risk for Reading Disabilities in Kindergarten Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mindy Sittner Bridges ◽  
Hugh W. Catts
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Screening Measure ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Dynamic Screening

This study examined the usefulness and predictive validity of a dynamic screening of phonological awareness in two samples of kindergarten children. In one sample ( n = 90), the predictive validity of the dynamic assessment was compared to a static version of the same screening measure. In the second sample ( n = 96), the dynamic screening measure was compared to a commonly used screening tool, Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills Initial Sound Fluency. Results showed that the dynamic screening measure uniquely predicted end-of-year reading achievement and outcomes in both samples. These results provide preliminary support for the usefulness of a dynamic screening measure of phonological awareness for kindergarten students.

Evaluating a Technique for Improving Letter Memory in At-Risk Kindergarten Students

2016 ◽  
pp. 2214-2234
Author(s):  
Carol Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
Color Naming ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Letter Naming

This chapter focuses on a process for improving letter naming. Numerous studies have established the correlation between fluent letter naming and reading in young children (Badian, 2000; Catts, 2001; Faust, Dimitrovsky, & Shacht, 2003; Terepocki, Kruk, & Willows, 2002; Mann & Foy, 2003). Two schools using the same reading program were selected for the study. The 125 kindergarten children attending these schools were screened for letter naming fluency. The low scoring individuals in each school were randomly assigned either to a treatment or control group for the study. Pretesting addressed rapid letter recall, color naming, object naming, and receptive vocabulary. The children in the treatment groups received twelve twenty-minute instructional sessions teaching the children to attend to the distinctive features (unique parts) of each letter. The students in the treatment groups made significant gains in letter naming speed and accuracy compared to the control groups. Receptive language scores improved. Other measures had no significant correlation with letter naming proficiency in posttests.

Emergent literacy in children of immigrants coming from a primarily oral literacy culture

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Shany ◽  
Esther Geva ◽  
Liat Melech-Feder
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Letter Naming ◽  
Emergent Literacy Skills

This study examined emergent literacy skills of 61 kindergarten children whose families had immigrated to Israel from a primarily oral society (Ethiopia). Three complementary perspectives were examined: developmental patterns, individual differences, and the contribution of parent literacy. The emergent literacy skills of children whose families were from Ethiopia were compared to those of 52 children coming from a primarily literate culture. The groups had acquired less complex Hebrew literacy skills in the same order, including phonological awareness, letter naming and consonant writing. However, the Ethiopian Israeli children were less proficient on various aspects of Hebrew language proficiency, and less familiar with aspects of cultural and environmental literacy. Most were also unable to speak or comprehend Amharic. In both groups, phonological awareness explained individual differences in letter naming, but vocabulary and syntactic knowledge added to the explained variance only in the Ethiopian Israeli group. Letter naming was associated with consonant writing in both groups. Hebrew oral and written language proficiency of Ethiopian Israeli mothers was positively correlated with literacy skills in their children. The results underscore the importance of distinguishing between less complex, modularized, aspects of emergent literacy and more complex literacy skills. Here the cumulative effects of poverty, oral home culture, parental inability to mediate language and literacy, and non-optimal conditions for becoming bilingual place young immigrant children at risk for academic failure early on.

Public School Voice Clinics, Part I

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Sandra Q. Miller ◽  
Charles L. Madison
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School District ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Urban School District ◽  
Local School District ◽  
Local School ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Voice Problem

The purpose of this article is to show how one urban school district dealt with a perceived need to improve its effectiveness in diagnosing and treating voice disorders. The local school district established semiannual voice clinics. Students aged 5-18 were referred, screened, and selected for the clinics if they appeared to have a chronic voice problem. The specific procedures used in setting up the voice clinics and the subsequent changes made over a 10-year period are presented.

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