Promoting phonological awareness in nursery-aged children through a Sure Start Early Listening programme

By Ann Robinson Of The Early Childhood Unit, National Children' Bureau, Nursery World, 20 July 2006

This paper describes a Sure Start Early Listening programme for children under four in a deprived, multicultural and multilingual area of London, and its effect on children's phonological awareness. The results indicated improvement in rhyme awareness following direct input, with more tentative signs of positive trends in phonemic awareness and visual memory. Morris, T and Leavey, G, International Journal of Early Years Education 14(2):155-168, June 2006. Abstract: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

This paper describes a Sure Start Early Listening programme for children under four in a deprived, multicultural and multilingual area of London, and its effect on children's phonological awareness. The results indicated...

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