Knowing letter names and learning letter sounds: A causal connection

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 213-233

  Share, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alphabetic skills; Letter names; Letter sounds; Literacy acquisition; Phonemic awareness; Reading development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; READING;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 2942637750     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Adams M.J. Beginning to read 1990 Bradford Cambridge, MA
2. Bentin S. Leshem H. On the interaction between phonological awareness and reading acquisition: It's a two-way street.Annals of Dyslexia 43 1993 125-148
3. Blum, P. (2001). Syllable splitting in Hebrew: Orthographic and phonological influences [in Hebrew]. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
4. Bond G.K. Dykstra R. The cooperative research program in first grade reading instruction Reading Research Quarterly 2 1967 5-142
5. Brady S. Short-term memory, phonological processing and reading ability Annals of Dyslexia 36 1986 138-153
6. Brady S.A. Shankweiler D.P. Phonological processes in literacy: A tribute to Isabelle Y. Liberman 1991 Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ
7. Chall J.S. Learning to read: The great debate 1967 McGraw-Hill New York
8. De Abreu M.D. Cardoso-Martins C. Alphabetic access route in beginning reading acquisition in Portuguese: The role of letter-name knowledge Reading and Writing 10 1998 85-104
9. Durrell D.D. Success in 1st grade reading Journal of Education 140 1958 1-6
10. Durrell D.D. Letter name values in reading and spelling Reading Research Quarterly 16 1980 159-163
11. Ehri L.C. Critique of five studies related to letter name knowledge and learning to read Gentile L.M. Kamil M.L. Blanchard J.S. Reading research revisited 1983 143-153 Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company Columbus, OH
12. Ehri L.C. Sources of difficulty in learning to spell and read Advances in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 7 1986 121-195
13. Feitelson D. Facts and fads in beginning reading: A cross-linguistic perspective 1988 Ablex Norwood, NJ
14. Gentry J.R. An analysis of developmental spelling in GNYS AT WRK The Reading Teacher 36 1982 192-200
15. Gibson E.J. Levin H. The psychology of reading 1975 MIT Press Cambridge, MA
16. Goswami U. Bryant P. Phonological skills and learning to read 1990 Erlbaum Hove, East Sussex
17. Harris M. Hatano G. Learning to read and write: A cross-linguistic perspective 1999 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
18. Kozminsky L. Kozminsky E. The effects of early phonological awareness training on reading success Learning and Instruction 5 1995 187-201
19. Levin I. Patel S. Margalit T. Barad N. Letter names: Effect on letter saying, spelling, and word recognition in Hebrew Applied Psycholinguistics 23 2002 269-300
20. Liberman A.M. Cooper F.S. Shankweiler D. Studdert-Kennedy M. Perception of the speech code Psychological Review 74 1967 431-461
21. Mason J.M. When do children begin to read: An exploration of four year old children's letter and word reading competencies Reading Research Quarterly 15 1980 203-227
22. Mates B.F. Strommen L. Why Ernie can't read: Sesame street and literacy The Reading Teacher 49 1995/1996 300-306
23. McBride-Chang C. The ABC's of the ABC: The development of letter-name and letter-sound knowledge Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 45 1999 285-308
24. McBride-Chang C. Treiman R. Hong Kong Chinese kindergartners learn to read English analytically Psychological Science 14 2003 138-143
25. Naveh J. Early history of the alphabet: An introduction to West Semitic epigraphy and palaeography 1982 The Magnum Press Jerusalem
26. Read C. Children's creative spelling 1986 Routledge & Kegan Paul London
27. Rozin P. Gleitman L.R. The structure and acquisition of reading II: The reading process and the acquisition of the alphabetic principle Reber A.S. Scarborough D.L. Toward a psychology of reading: The proceedings of the CUNY conference 1977 49 65 Lawrence Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ
28. Shankweiler D. Liberman I.Y. Phonology and reading disability: Solving the reading puzzle 1989 University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor, MI
29. Share D.L. Phonological recoding and self-teaching: Sine qua non of reading acquisition Cognition 55 1995 151-218
30. Share D.L. Gur T. How reading begins: A study of preschoolers' print identification strategies Cognition and Instruction 17 1999 177-213
31. Share D.L. Jorm A.F. Maclean R. Matthews R. Waterman B. Early reading achievement, oral language ability, and a child's home background Australian Psychologist 18 1983 75-89
32. Share D.L. Jorm A.F. Maclean R. Matthews R. Sources of individual differences in reading acquisition Journal of Educational Psychology 76 1984 1309-1324
33. Share D.L. Levin I. Learning to read and write in Hebrew Harris M. Hatano G. Learning to read and write: A cross-linguistic perspective 1999 89-111 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
34. Share D.L. Stanovich K.E. Cognitive processes in early reading development: Accommodating individual differences into a model of acquisition Issues in Education 1 1995 1 57
35. Shatil E. Share D.L. Cognitive antecedents of early reading ability: A test of the modularity hypothesis Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 86 2003 1-31
36. Snow C.E. Burns M.S. Griffin P. Preventing reading difficulties in young children 1998 National Academy Press Washington, DC
37. Snowling M.J. Developmental reading disorders Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 32 1991 49-77
38. Solberg S. Nevo B. Preliminary steps towards an Israeli standardization of the Peabody Test (in Hebrew) Megamot 3 1979 407-413
39. Stanovich K.E. Matthew effects in reading: Some consequences of individual differences in the acquisition of literacy Reading Research Quarterly 4 1986 360-406
40. Stanovich K.E. Progress in understanding reading: Scientific foundations and new frontiers 2000 Guilford Press New York
41. Stanovich K.E. Cunningham A.E. Feeman D.J. Intelligence, cognitive skills, and early reading progress Reading Research Quarterly 19 1984 278-303
42. Stuart M. Coltheart M. Does reading develop in a sequence of stages? Cognition 30 1988 139-181
43. Treiman R. The role of intrasyllabic units in learning to read and spell Gough P.B. Ehri L.C. Treiman R. Reading acquisition 1992 65-106 Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ
44. Treiman R. Beginning to spell: A study of first-grade children 1993 Oxford University Press New York
45. Treiman R. Use of consonant letter names in beginning spelling Developmental Psychology 30 1994 567-580
46. Treiman R. Kessler B. The role of letter names in the acquisition of literacy Kail R. Advances in child development and behavior Vol. 31 2003 105-135 Academic Press San Diego, CA
47. Treiman R. Rodriguez K. Young children use letter names in learning to read words Psychological Science 10 1999 334-338
48. Treiman R. Tincoff R. The fragility of the alphabetic principle: Children's knowledge of letter names can cause them to spell syllabically rather than alphabetically Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 64 1997 425-449
49. Treiman R. Tincoff R. Richmond-Welty E.D. Letter names help children to connect print and speech Developmental Psychology 32 1996 505-514
50. Treiman R. Tincoff R. Rodriguez K. Mouzaki A. Francis D.J. The foundations of literacy: Learning the sounds of letters Child Development 69 1998 1524-1540
51. Treiman R. Weatherston S. Berch D. The role of letter names in children's learning of phoneme-grapheme relations Applied Psycholinguistics 15 1994 97-122
52. Tunmer W.E. Herriman M.L. Nesdale A.B. Metalinguistic abilities and beginning reading Reading Research Quarterly 23 1988 134-158
53. Vellutino F.R. Scanlon D.M. Phonological coding, phonological awareness and reading ability: Evidence from a longitudinal and experimental study Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 33 1987 321-363
54. Venezky R. The curious role of letter names in reading instruction Visible Language 9 1975 7-23
55. Wagner R.K. Torgesen J.K. The nature of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills Psychological Bulletin 101 1987 192-212
56. White K.R. The relation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement Psychological Bulletin 91 1982 461-481
57. Wilson F.T. Flemming C.W. Correlations of reading progress with other abilities and traits in Grade 1 The Journal of Genetic Psychology 53 1938 33-52
58. Worden P.E. Boettcher W. Young children's acquisition of alphabet knowledge Journal of Reading Behavior 22 1990 277-295