Specialized Instructional Strategies for Teaching Reading

The objective of this study is to examine two studies relating to development of literacy in preschoolers in view of the National Reading Project. Toward this end this study will examine the work of the National Early Literacy Panel (2008) and the work of Vossenkuhl (2010) both of which report studies involving literacy learning in preschool students.

Study Reported By the National Early Literacy Panel (2008)

The work of the National Early Literacy Panel entitled "A Scientific Synthesis of Early Literacy Development and Implications for Intervention" reports a study in the form of a metasynthesis that sought to answer the questions of what are the skills and abilities of young children that predict later reading, writing, or spelling outcomes?" In addition the questions were posed as follows:

Which programs, interventions, and other instructional approaches or procedures have contributed to or inhibited gains in children's...
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