Do Alphabet Letters Help Prereaders Acquire Phonemic Segmentation Skill?.

Hohn, William E.; Ehri, Linnea C.

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Publication Date: 1983

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Do Alphabet Letters Help Prereaders Acquire Phonemic Segmentation Skill?

Hohn, William E.; Ehri, Linnea C.

Journal of Educational Psychology, v75 n5 p752-62 Oct 1983

The present study was designed to determine whether alphabet letters facilitate the acquisition of phoneme segmentation skill and to test the assumption that letters make it harder for prereaders to learn segmentation than nondistinctively marked visual aids. (Author/PN)

Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Memory, Phonemes, Phonetic Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Reading Skills, Screening Tests

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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