Kindergarten Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies: Effects on phonological awareness, letter sound knowledge and fluency, and decoding skills of preschool children in Iceland

• Main Authors: Pétursdóttir, Anna Lind, Ólafsdóttir, Kristín Svanhildur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands 2016
• Subjects: Peer tutoring; preschool; phonological awareness; letter knowledge; reading; Samvinnunám; leikskóli; hljóðkerfisvitund; stafaþekking; lestrarfærni; Fuchs; Iceland
• Online Access: https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/netla/article/view/2430

In Iceland, many children struggle with learning to read. At the end of 2nd grade, 36% of students are reading below comprehension level (Ásgeir Björgvinsson, Guðrún Edda Bentsdóttir, & Hildur B. Svavarsdóttir, 2015). Reading difficulties often start early, set in quickly and over time become in...