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Phonemic Awareness Instruction for Pre-First Graders: Extending the school year for kindergartners with phonemic awareness deficit
Phonemic Awareness Instruction for PreFirst Graders Extending the school year for kindergartners with phonemic awareness deficit Author:Thomas Cleary This monograph presents a study of pre-first graders who participated in a summer program of teaching and learning featuring phonemic awareness instruction. Sixty-two children were selected for this intervention; 40 participated and 22 did not. Daily instruction in phonemic awareness was an integral component of the five-week program. P... more »honemic awareness pre and post-tests were administered to the 62 children; results were examined. Ten other reading tests and surveys were administered during their first and second grade school-years. Results from these assessments were also examined. The analysis of student outcomes, on these assessments and surveys, indicate phonemic awareness proficiency was significantly improved by participation in the extended school-year summer program. No other measure of reading proficiency, as highlighted by the first and second grade pre and post-tests, revealed a significant difference between children who attended the extended school-year program and those who did not. Implications of these findings are discussed.« less