This article is concerned with aspects of phonological processing and linguistic awareness
that may set the stage for initial reading development. The aims are first to provide a current …

Outlines a 5-step strategy for resolving the disputes between the whole-language and
phonics camps in reading instruction, and reviews the empirical evidence derived from …

The last 25 years have seen tremendous advances in the study of psychological processes
in reading. Our growing body of knowledge on the reading process and reading acquisition …

Results The 6 months to December 2008 saw Seardel record an attributable loss of some
R183 million compared to a R4 million profit in the corresponding period. Included in the …

This article reports data from a training study of morphological awareness involving 33
dyslexic students in grades 4-5. The dyslexic students received 36 lessons of morphological …

A cohort of 92 children was followed through sixth grade to investigate the relationship of
preschool skills and first grade phonological awareness to reading and spelling. In …

Ninety-six children were administered an orthographic test as preschoolers and two
measures of nonphonemic phonological awareness (syllable segmentation, rhyme …

First-grade children completed a battery of tasks that included standardized measures of
word recognition and spelling, measures of phonological and orthographic processing skill …

The double deficit hypothesis (Bowers and Wolf 1993) maintains that children with both
phonological and naming-speed deficits will be poorer readers than children with just one or …

Because of the research demonstrating the roles of phonological awareness, serial naming
speed, and orthographic processing in reading, a test of each of these skills was added to a …