Emergent literacy skills and training time uniquely predict variability in responses to phonemic awareness training in disadvantaged kindergartners

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 93-115

  Hecht, Steven A ^a   Close, Linda ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted instruction; Phonemic awareness; Phonological awareness; Preventing reading failure

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; TEACHING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; POVERTY; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036597996     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0965(02)00001-2     Document Type: Article

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