Date of Award:
5-1971
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family and Child Development
Committee Chair(s)
Carroll Lambert
Committee
Carroll Lambert
Committee
Don C. Carter
Committee
Jay A. Monson
Committee
Jane Mecham
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to determine if girls of preschool ages find more success in learning letters of the alphabet, their sounds, and simple two and three letter words formed from these letters, than boys of similar ages; and in addition to compare the achievement of three-year-old children to that of four-year-old children.
The children were introduced to six letters of the alphabet and the sound associated with these letters. They were then introduced to sixteen two and three-letter words that could be formed from these letters. At the conclusion of the ten tasks, a post test was administered and the results were studied to compare the achievement of girls to boys and three-year-old children to four-year-old children.
It was found that there is no appreciable difference between the scores of girl s and boys, nor is the difference between the scores of three-year-old children and four-year-old children meaningful.
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Recommended Citation
Hopkins, F. Walda, "The Use of a Phonetic Approach to Reading With Three and Four-Year-Old Children" (1971). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2607.
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