Why Johnny Isn't Ready for Kindergarten: A Study of Phonological Awareness Methodology in Pre-Kindergarten Programs in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region of Appalachia

 
 
 
 

Why Johnny Isn't Ready for Kindergarten: A Study of Phonological Awareness Methodology in Pre-Kindergarten Programs in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region of Appalachia

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dc.contributor.advisor Erb, Dorothy J. en_US
dc.contributor.author Backus, Carolyn S. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-07-07T16:08:07Z
dc.date.available 2008-07-07T16:08:07Z
dc.date.created 2005 en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-07-07T16:08:07Z
dc.identifier.uri http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1111507056 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/4215
dc.description Phonological awareness is one of the areas of early literacy that is a good predictor of later success in reading. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a representative group of pre-kindergarten classrooms in the Mid-Ohio Valley region of Appalachia. The researcher looked at the methods used by teachers to explicitly and implicitly teach phonological awareness in their classrooms. A Likert scale survey was administered to investigate methodology used by teachers to expose students to these skills in the classroom. Teachers answered questions that focused on their use of strategies to develop early literacy skills such as phoneme and grapheme recognition, segmentation, blending, rhyming, and syllabication. The results suggest that the pre-kindergarten programs currently in operation are inadequate in their teaching of early literacy phonological skills. Results further indicate that teachers are teaching with old reading readiness paradigms rather than research-based early literacy exposure paradigms. en_US
dc.format application/pdf en_US
dc.format 57p. en_US
dc.rights unrestricted en_US
dc.rights Copyright and permissions information available at the source archive en_US
dc.subject Phonological Awareness en_US
dc.subject Pre-Kindergarten en_US
dc.subject Appalachia en_US
dc.subject Teaching Methodology en_US
dc.title Why Johnny Isn't Ready for Kindergarten: A Study of Phonological Awareness Methodology in Pre-Kindergarten Programs in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region of Appalachia en_US
dc.type Electronic Thesis or Dissertation en_US
dc.degree.name Masters in Education en_US
dc.degree.level masters en_US
dc.degree.discipline Education en_US
dc.degree.grantor Marietta College en_US
dc.contributor.publisher Marietta College / OhioLINK en_US

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