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  2. Anna Gillingham - Wikipedia

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    Along with the help of Stillman, Gillingham developed a "sequential, alphabetic-phonetic multisensory program" as a tool with which students could easily create meaningful syllables. [6] This approach eliminated the need for a child to memorize almost all words in language, limiting it to those that were non-phonetic.

  3. Phonemic awareness - Wikipedia

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    Adult English language learners (ELLs) may also benefit from direct PA instruction. A study of Arabic-speaking ELLs in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program showed substantial gains in vowel recognition and improved C-test scores after PA tuition, despite concerns of the researchers that adult ELLs may negatively perceive PA ...

  4. Management of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Management of dyslexia depends on a multitude of variables; there is no one specific strategy or set of strategies that will work for all who have dyslexia.. Some teaching is geared to specific reading skill areas, such as phonetic decoding; whereas other approaches are more comprehensive in scope, combining techniques to address basic skills along with strategies to improve comprehension and ...

  5. Characteristics of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Spelling errors — Because of difficulty learning letter-sound correspondences, individuals with dyslexia might tend to misspell words, or leave vowels out of words. Letter order - People with dyslexia may also reverse the order of two letters, especially when the final, incorrect, word looks similar to the intended word.

  6. Phonological awareness - Wikipedia

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    Phonological awareness tasks (adapted from Virginia Department of Education (1998): [12] and Gillon (2004) [1] Listening skills. The ability to attend to and distinguish environmental and speech sounds from one another [12] Alertness: Awareness and localization of sounds; Discrimination: Recognize same/different sounds

  7. Adult education - Wikipedia

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    Exemplary situation – a workshop, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) Annual Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in 2012. Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. [1]

  8. 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.

  9. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...