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2006

Jamaica: Gender and Development

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Teaching With Systematic Phonemic Awareness: The Effects Of Group Learning And Oral Instruction At The Operation Restoration Christian School, Laura Nichols Apr 2006

Teaching With Systematic Phonemic Awareness: The Effects Of Group Learning And Oral Instruction At The Operation Restoration Christian School, Laura Nichols

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The current study was conducted to investigate the effects of oral instruction and teaching with systematic phonemic awareness at the Operation Restoration Christian School of Trench Town, Jamaica. To do this, the researcher taught a class of five low level readers, using teaching methodology provided by the Sadlier Phonics Teacher’s Manual and outside literature concerning phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle. For a five week, with a total of 15 days, student progress was monitored using daily observational notes and through a comparison of test results conducted at the beginning and the end of the research period. In this period …