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Successful Phonological Awareness Instruction With Preschool Children: Lessons From the Classroom
Beth M. Phillips*,
Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti,
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Christopher J. Lonigan
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bphillips{at}fcrr.org.
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Phonological awareness is one of several key precursor skills to conventional literacy that develop during the preschool period. Significant amounts of research support the causal and predictive relation between phonological awareness and childrens ease of learning to decode and spell. However, many preschool curricula and early childhood educational and caregiving settings are still lacking in robust instruction in this area, and many preschool instructors do not yet have a strong grasp of the developmental trajectory of phonological awareness nor of how to incorporate effective support and instruction into a developmentally appropriate teaching plan. This article summarizes what is known from high-quality research about the development of phonological awareness and about how this informs effective pedagogical strategies for its instruction. Numerous examples are given of effective instructional strategies derived from randomized trials of preschool curricula and interventions
First published on March 11, 2008, doi:10.1177/0271121407313813
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education 2008;28:3.
A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2008

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