Phonemic Awareness Instruction for Pre-First Graders : Extending the school year for kindergartners with phonemic awareness deficit

ISBN-13: 9783639113068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 96 str.

Thomas Cleary

Opis

This monograph presents a study of pre-first graderswho participated in a summer program of teaching andlearning featuring phonemic awareness instruction. Sixty-two children were selected for thisintervention; 40 participated and 22 did not. Dailyinstruction in phonemic awareness was an integralcomponent of the five-week program. Phonemicawareness pre and post-tests were administered to the62 children; results were examined. Ten otherreading tests and surveys were administered duringtheir first and second grade school-years. Resultsfrom these assessments were also examined. Theanalysis of student outcomes, on these assessmentsand surveys, indicate phonemic awareness proficiencywas significantly improved by participation in theextended school-year summer program. No othermeasure of reading proficiency, as highlighted by thefirst and second grade pre and post-tests, revealed asignificant difference between children who attendedthe extended school-year program and thosewho did not. Implications of these findings arediscussed.

O autorze

Thomas T. Cleary, Ph.D. has 38+ years experience teaching
kindergarten through graduate school. He holds degrees from
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, University of Connecticut,
and completed doctoral studies at the University of Rhode Island
in 2001. He is currently chair of the Education Department at
Castleton State College, Castleton VT.