A growing reliance on research to guide decisions about reading instruction has resulted in
a swing toward approaches that emphasize phoneme awareness and the relations between …

A growing reliance on research to guidedecisions about reading instruction hasresulted in a
swing toward approaches thatemphasize phoneme awareness and the relationsbetween …

About 25 years ago, some of my colleagues posed the question that was, in their view, basic
to an understanding of the reading process and the ills that so frequently attend it: What must …

The purpose of this article is to examine the literature linking phoneme awareness and
reading acquisition and to examine the nature of this relationship in terms of learner and …

This article discusses whether or not beginning readers learn phonics best through
instructional approaches that teach students to sound out letters, spell words, or combine the …

After reading the chapters presented in this volume, it would be hard to dispute the
importance of phonological processes in the development of literacy—an insight that …

The current mantra calls for resolving the early reading wars through a “balanced” approach.
Defining balance will require careful theoretical and practical examination of specific …

Erickson (1989) pointed out that,“by age three, almost every human child has learned to
speak a language with fluency and appropriateness, which is a task far more cognitively …

SPRING/SUMMER 1998 were hundreds of kids on our waiting list. My worst headache each
semester was calling parents who had applied, but whose children we couldn't serve. The …

Phonemic awareness is beginning to become rather a buzz term in discussions about
methods of teaching reading and there is widespread agreement that children need to …