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50 Years of ERIC
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Phonological Awareness Development as a Discrete Process: Evidence for an Integrative Model
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Cassady, Jerrell C.; Smith, Lawrence L.; Putman, S. Michael – Reading Psychology, 2008
The theoretical and practical implications of examining young children's acquisitions of phonological awareness skills with specific and differentiated processing tasks are explored in this study. The study presents data from 269 kindergarten children completing a phonological awareness protocol that provided information on 14 discrete…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Literacy
Acquisition of Blending Skills: Comparisons among Body-Coda, Onset-Rime, and Phoneme Blending Tasks
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Cassady, Jerrell C.; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
Following research on phonological awareness development, this study explores children's acquisition of blending skills using three types of stimuli: body-coda, onset-rime, and phonemes. The results demonstrated that kindergarten children consistently gained proficiency for blending body-coda stimuli prior to onset-rime stimuli and phonemes. The…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Young Children, Phonemes, Kindergarten
Interactive Computer Software: The Effects on Young Children's Reading Achievement.
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Greenlee-Moore, Marilyn E.; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Psychology, 1996
Investigates the effect on reading comprehension when reading shorter and easier narrative text and longer and more difficult texts on the printed page as compared to reading the same narrative texts using interactive CD-ROM software displayed by the computer. Finds that reading from computers increased comprehension when subjects read longer and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Intermediate Grades, Optical Data Disks
A Comparison of Procedures for Training Efficient Word Processing.
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Bengston, John K.; Smith, Lawrence L. – Reading Psychology, 1983
Reports on a study in which eight high school students and one elementary school student received practice in making both speeded and tachistoscopic identifications of high and low frequency words. Compares performance of each group to the other and to a third control group where stimuli were presented at a self-paced rate with no experimental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction
A Study of the Effects of Out-of-Level Testing with Poor Readers in the Intermediate Grades.
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Smith, Lawrence L.; Johns, Jerry L. – Reading Psychology, 1984
Finds some evidence that out-of-level tests are more suitable and reliable for poor readers than are on-level tests. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Intermediate Grades, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction