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Effects of rhyming, vocabulary and phonemic awareness instruction on phoneme awareness

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra In this journal of research in reading, the results suggest that instruction emphasizing phoneme segmentation, blending, and letter–sound relationships are […]

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Weekly Reader Teacher’s Guide Edition

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra This edition states that April is National Poetry Month.  It includes a short lesson plan on poetry about animals. This […]

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Evaluation of a rime-based reading program with Shuswap and Heiltsuk First Nations prereaders

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra This study found that children who experience great difficulty with beginning reading typically have a deficiency in phonological awareness.  It […]

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Honoring the Child with Dyslexia in a Montessori Classroom.

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra This article takes the position that the ideal curriculum for children with dyslexia is multisensory, structured, cumulative, and sequential.   One’s […]

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Two Essential Ingredients: Phonics and Fluency Getting to Know Each Other

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra The article states that in 2000, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD] found that phonics and […]

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Synergistic Phonics and Fluency Instruction: The Magic of Rhyming Poetry!

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra This article states that phonics and fluency must be taught, practiced and nurtured in the earliest stages of reading instruction […]

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Linking Literacy and Movement

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra This article tells of the importance of physical movement, rhythm of language and linking those elements to literacy for young […]

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Early Childhood Education Students’ Emergent Skills in Literacy Scaffolding

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra As a teacher in the Department of Education and Schooling at Mount Royal University in Canada, Jodi Nickel conducted a […]

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Early Literacy Development: Skill Growth and Relations between Classroom Variables for Preschool Children.

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra This study suggests that children who are behind in early emergent literacy skills when starting kindergarten will remain behind and […]

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Rhyming and Folk Tales

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An Annotation by Andrea Wondra Philip Clarkson gives a convincing argument for using rhyming and folk tales to help children comprehend mathematical problems.  He makes […]

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