Teaching Preschoolers to Read: Don't Stop between the Sounds When Segmenting Words.

Weisberg, Paul; Savard, Christopher F.

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Publication Date: 1993

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Teaching Preschoolers to Read: Don't Stop between the Sounds When Segmenting Words.

Weisberg, Paul; Savard, Christopher F.

Education and Treatment of Children, v16 n1 p1-18 Feb 1993

Two blending strategies for decoding words (pausing and not pausing between successive sounds) were compared with nine preschool children. Once mastered, segmenting by not pausing engendered high and sustained levels of word identification. Other findings indicated that sound identification abilities were necessary but not sufficient for decoding. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Instructional Effectiveness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics, Preschool Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Time Factors (Learning), Word Recognition

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Language: English

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