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There is a movement to teach children to read at a younger age and it may help to incorporate short periods of intentional training every day in the area of rhyming in order to move along the continuum of learning in a reasonable, developmentally appropriate manner. The focus and goal of this action research project was to increase students’ understanding and use of rhyming words as a pre-literacy skill.

A couple weeks ago, my youngest daughter noticed that one of the pumpkins in our patch had broken free of the vine.  It looked ripe, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]