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Phonemic Awareness And Phonics As An Integral Field To Early Emergent Reading Programs, Lea Kunkel
Phonemic Awareness And Phonics As An Integral Field To Early Emergent Reading Programs, Lea Kunkel
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
The act of learning to read is one which is unnatural to the human brain, causing exponential stress for young learners, students acquiring a new language, or learning disabled. To alleviate the nidus which acquiring the ability to decipher literature may impose, continual research in learning to read has taken place. Research which has aimed to discover the best kept secrets, programs and strategies for helping early to emergent readers succeed. Within the literature review, the benefit of implementing phonemic awareness and phonics into early to emergent reading programs will be discovered. Including, how phonemic awareness and phonics arose in …
Phonics: The Breaking Apart Of Words To Help All Children Learn To Read, Eliza Rogotzke
Phonics: The Breaking Apart Of Words To Help All Children Learn To Read, Eliza Rogotzke
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
This action research project was driven by the researcher’s interest in phonics based instruction to help children learn to read. Specifically, using the PRESS phonics intervention to help meet the needs of each individual learner in the experimental classroom. The researcher, a first grade teacher in her fourth year of teaching, studied her students participation in the PRESS phonics intervention. The four week intervention was conducted using the students’ fluency and early reading skills to analyze the effectiveness of the PRESS phonics intervention. Throughout the four weeks, oral reading fluency along with decodable word fluency was monitored and all progress …
Impact Of Phonics Instruction For Readers At Risk, Erin Driesen
Impact Of Phonics Instruction For Readers At Risk, Erin Driesen
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
This action research study investigated the impact of phonics instruction for readers who are considered to be at risk in their reading performance. For six weeks, the researcher implemented phonics instruction to two 2nd grade students. This instruction was completed in a small-group setting in the resource room. At the beginning of the week, the students were given assessments to see which phonics skills they were missing, then they received instruction based on those skills. Quantitative data was collected at the beginning, middle, and end of the six weeks. This information was collected by using a Diagnostic Decoding Survey and …
Sight Words And Phonics: The Connection That Helps Early Elementary Students Read Fluently, Stephanie Mulder
Sight Words And Phonics: The Connection That Helps Early Elementary Students Read Fluently, Stephanie Mulder
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
The purpose of this action research project was to determine if combining phonics and memorized vocabulary words into the reading instruction for Tier 2 students would increase fluency speed. For six weeks the researcher introduced Dolch sight words according to grade level to Tier 2 students. This was done in addition to the typical phonics instruction done in the general education classroom and Tier 2 resource room. At the beginning of each week students were given a list of 20 new vocabulary words. Throughout the week, students were asked to use these words in sentences, find them in books, and …