Kindergarteners' Incidental Learning of Words During Exposure to Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy Instruction and Digital Books

Download or read book Kindergarteners' Incidental Learning of Words During Exposure to Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy Instruction and Digital Books written by Anna Hart and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project evaluates the extent to which a hands-on phonics intervention can also serve to facilitate vocabulary learning. Participants in this study included four children identified as needing Tier 3 level of support according to the Response to Intervention model. Three to four times per week, children participated in phonics intervention sessions drawn from an early literacy program entitled Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy (SEEL). The SEEL activities provided the children with the opportunity to encounter concrete examples of words that highlight a phonological pattern. During the activities, words were encountered in contexts that exemplified their meaning. After each SEEL activity, children participated in a shared reading and writing experience that provided additional exposure to highlighted target words using an Apple iPad tablet. Word knowledge was assessed prior to and after intervention, following a pre-test/post-test design.