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  2. Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia

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    The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system (such as the English variety of the Latin alphabet, one of the more common types of writing systems in use today). In the education field, it is known as the alphabetic code. [1][2][3][4] Alphabetic writing systems that use an (in principle) almost perfectly phonemic ...

  3. DIBELS - Wikipedia

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    DIBELS. DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a series of short tests designed to evaluate key literacy skills among students in kindergarten through 8th grade, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. The theory behind DIBELS is that giving students a number of quick tests ...

  4. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  5. Alvin Liberman - Wikipedia

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    January 13, 2000. (2000-01-13) (aged 82) Mansfield, Connecticut [1] Occupation. Psychologist. Alvin Meyer Liberman (/ ˈlɪbərmən /; [2] May 10, 1917 – January 13, 2000) was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. Liberman was an American psychologist. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of psychological research in speech perception.

  6. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE. Nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic script. [1] Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script developed in Ancient ...

  7. Fountas and Pinnell reading levels - Wikipedia

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    Criticism of LLI and the Fountas and Pinnell reading levels have focused on three main issues: the amount and sequencing of phonics instruction in the series; the research evidence for the program's effectiveness; and the program's underlying model of reading.

  8. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic phonics refers to a family of programmes which aim to teach reading and writing through the following methods: [2] Teaching students the correspondence between written letters (graphemes) and speech sounds (phonemes), known as “grapheme/phoneme correspondences” or “GPCs” or simply “letter-sounds”. For example, the words me ...

  9. Isabelle Liberman - Wikipedia

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    She was a professor at the University of Connecticut from 1966 through 1987 and a research associate at the Haskins Laboratories. Along with her husband, Alvin Liberman, she elucidated the "alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading. In 1988, she received the Samuel T. Orton Award of ...