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Can an Online Reading Camp Teach 5-Year-Old Children to Read?

Literacy is an essential skill. Learning to read is a requirement for becoming a self-providing human being. However, while spoken language is acquired naturally with exposure to language without explicit instruction, reading and writing need to be taught explicitly. Decades of research have shown t...

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Autores principales: Weiss, Yael, Yeatman, Jason D., Ender, Suzanne, Gijbels, Liesbeth, Loop, Hailley, Mizrahi, Julia C., Woo, Bo Y., Kuhl, Patricia K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431836
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.793213
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author Weiss, Yael
Yeatman, Jason D.
Ender, Suzanne
Gijbels, Liesbeth
Loop, Hailley
Mizrahi, Julia C.
Woo, Bo Y.
Kuhl, Patricia K.
author_facet Weiss, Yael
Yeatman, Jason D.
Ender, Suzanne
Gijbels, Liesbeth
Loop, Hailley
Mizrahi, Julia C.
Woo, Bo Y.
Kuhl, Patricia K.
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description Literacy is an essential skill. Learning to read is a requirement for becoming a self-providing human being. However, while spoken language is acquired naturally with exposure to language without explicit instruction, reading and writing need to be taught explicitly. Decades of research have shown that well-structured teaching of phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and letter-to-sound mapping is crucial in building solid foundations for the acquisition of reading. During the COVID-19 pandemic, children worldwide did not have access to consistent and structured teaching and are, as a consequence, predicted to be behind in the development of their reading skills. Subsequent evidence confirms this prediction. With the best evidence-based practice in mind, we developed an online version of a well-structured early literacy training program (Reading Camp) for 5-year-old children. This 2-week online Reading Camp program is designed for pre-K children. It incorporates critical components of the fundamental skills essential to learning to read and is taught online in an interactive, multi-sensory, and peer-learning environment. We measure the participants’ literacy skills and other related skills before and after participating in the online Reading Camp and compare the results to no-treatment controls. Results show that children who participated in the online Reading Camp improved significantly on all parameters in relation to controls. Our results demonstrate that a well-structured evidence-based reading instruction program, even if online and short-term, benefits 5-year-old children in learning to read. With the potential to scale up this online program, the evidence presented here, alongside previous evidence for the efficacy of the in-person program, indicates that the online Reading Camp program is effective and can be used to tackle a variety of questions regarding structural and functional plasticity in the early stages of reading acquisition.
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spelling pubmed-90092592022-04-15 Can an Online Reading Camp Teach 5-Year-Old Children to Read? Weiss, Yael Yeatman, Jason D. Ender, Suzanne Gijbels, Liesbeth Loop, Hailley Mizrahi, Julia C. Woo, Bo Y. Kuhl, Patricia K. Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Literacy is an essential skill. Learning to read is a requirement for becoming a self-providing human being. However, while spoken language is acquired naturally with exposure to language without explicit instruction, reading and writing need to be taught explicitly. Decades of research have shown that well-structured teaching of phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and letter-to-sound mapping is crucial in building solid foundations for the acquisition of reading. During the COVID-19 pandemic, children worldwide did not have access to consistent and structured teaching and are, as a consequence, predicted to be behind in the development of their reading skills. Subsequent evidence confirms this prediction. With the best evidence-based practice in mind, we developed an online version of a well-structured early literacy training program (Reading Camp) for 5-year-old children. This 2-week online Reading Camp program is designed for pre-K children. It incorporates critical components of the fundamental skills essential to learning to read and is taught online in an interactive, multi-sensory, and peer-learning environment. We measure the participants’ literacy skills and other related skills before and after participating in the online Reading Camp and compare the results to no-treatment controls. Results show that children who participated in the online Reading Camp improved significantly on all parameters in relation to controls. Our results demonstrate that a well-structured evidence-based reading instruction program, even if online and short-term, benefits 5-year-old children in learning to read. With the potential to scale up this online program, the evidence presented here, alongside previous evidence for the efficacy of the in-person program, indicates that the online Reading Camp program is effective and can be used to tackle a variety of questions regarding structural and functional plasticity in the early stages of reading acquisition. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9009259/ /pubmed/35431836 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.793213 Text en Copyright © 2022 Weiss, Yeatman, Ender, Gijbels, Loop, Mizrahi, Woo and Kuhl. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Yeatman, Jason D.
Ender, Suzanne
Gijbels, Liesbeth
Loop, Hailley
Mizrahi, Julia C.
Woo, Bo Y.
Kuhl, Patricia K.
Can an Online Reading Camp Teach 5-Year-Old Children to Read?
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title_fullStr Can an Online Reading Camp Teach 5-Year-Old Children to Read?
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title_short Can an Online Reading Camp Teach 5-Year-Old Children to Read?
title_sort can an online reading camp teach 5-year-old children to read?
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431836
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.793213
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