The use of a computer-assisted assessment program to train phonological awareness skills
in grade 1 First Nations students was examined. Thirty-two children ranging in age from six
years four months to eight years 1 month participated in an eight-week intervention study. There
were two groups involved in the study. The experimental group received approximately fifteen
minutes a day, five days a week training with a phonological based computer program called
Reading Edge. The comparison group received the same amount of training with a computer
program called Living Books which focused on sight words. When compared to the comparison
group, children in the experimental group showed significantly greater gains on measures of final
phoneme isolation, total phoneme isolation, phoneme blending, initial phoneme deletion, total
phoneme deletion, word identification and word attack. Thus, the computer-assisted assessment
program Reading Edge was successful in improving the reading and phonological awareness
skills of grade 1 First Nations students.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/15391 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Adams, Sheri L. |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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